Re: pg_upgrade using appname to lock out other users

From: Jesper Krogh <jesper(at)krogh(dot)cc>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_upgrade using appname to lock out other users
Date: 2011-06-15 05:30:14
Message-ID: 4DF84366.1020908@krogh.cc
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On 2011-06-15 05:01, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> You might remember we added a postmaster/postgres -b switch to indicate
> binary upgrade mode. The attached patch prevents any client without an
> application_name of 'binary-upgrade' from connecting to the cluster
> while it is binary upgrade mode. This helps prevent unauthorized users
> from connecting during the upgrade. This will not help for clusters
> that do not have the -b flag, e.g. pre-9.1.
>
> Does this seem useful? Something for 9.1 or 9.2?
>
> This idea came from Andrew Dunstan via IRC during a pg_upgrade run by
> Stephen Frost when some clients accidentally connected. (Stephen reran
> pg_upgrade successfully.)
Couldn't the -b flag also imply a very strict hba.conf configuration, that
essentially only lets pg_upgrade in..?

--
Jesper

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