Re: v8.3.4 metadata changes while users active

I'll be running this as "postgres"
Thanks for the help.
Hope others may find this useful.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bosco Rama [mailto:postgres@boscorama.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 12:04 PM
To: Gauthier, Dave
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] v8.3.4 metadata changes while users active

Gauthier, Dave wrote:
> Hmmm.... This sounds like it might work.
> There are, in fact, only 2 users (roles). Lets call them "selectuser" and "moduser"
> So, as the DBA, I just...
>
> alter role selectuser connection limit 0;
> alter role moduser connection limit 0;
>
> Then kick everyone off (I usually use "pg_ctl kill TERM <procpid>" to do this)
>
> Make changes as the DBA
> Then...
>
> alter role selectuser connection limit -1;
> alter role moduser connection limit -1;
>
> Done !
>
> Correct?

Yep.  That should work.  The only reservation I'd bring up here is that you
should be doing this as a user other than one of those two users.  Otherwise
you may lock yourself out of the DB.  I assume you'll be doing this as either
a PG superuser (e.g. postgres) or a user distinct from the two above.

HTH

Bosco.