From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: ALTER DATABASE and datallowconn |
Date: | 2012-05-03 14:28:26 |
Message-ID: | CABUevEzwdKFOqYrhvZNsWo5TjbAxYDpoUUcN95_eMeUVfB3jfw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>>> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
>>>> Is there a particular reason we don't have an ALTER DATABASE switch
>>>> that controls the datallowconn, or is it just something "missed out"?
>
>>> It was never intended to be a user-accessible switch, just something to
>>> protect template0.
>
>> It can be rather useful for others as well, though - since it works as
>> a defense against superusers doing the wrong thing..
>
> I'm having a hard time seeing the use-case for a user-created database
> that nobody at all can connect to. Even if there is some marginal use
template databases.
> for that, you could achieve the result with a special entry in
> pg_hba.conf to "reject" all connection attempts for that DB.
Yeah, that would work.
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Magnus Hagander
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