Re: pg_upgrade using appname to lock out other users

Tom Lane wrote:
> Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> >> [ just recommend using a different port number during pg_upgrade ]
> 
> > +1...  That seems to have lots of nice properties.
> 
> Yeah, that seems like an appropriate expenditure of effort.  It's surely
> not bulletproof, since someone could intentionally connect to the actual
> port number, but getting to bulletproof is a lot more work than anyone
> seems to want to do right now.  (And, as Bruce pointed out, no complete
> solution would be back-patchable anyway.)

OK, let me work on that.

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