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PostgreSQL Administration Cookbook, 9.5/9.6 Edition

You're reading from   PostgreSQL Administration Cookbook, 9.5/9.6 Edition Effective database management for administrators

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
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ISBN-13 9781785883187
Length 556 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Gianni Ciolli Gianni Ciolli
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Hannu Krosing Hannu Krosing
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Gabriele Bartolini Gabriele Bartolini
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. First Steps FREE CHAPTER 2. Exploring the Database 3. Configuration 4. Server Control 5. Tables and Data 6. Security 7. Database Administration 8. Monitoring and Diagnosis 9. Regular Maintenance 10. Performance and Concurrency 11. Backup and Recovery 12. Replication and Upgrades

Temporarily preventing a user from connecting

Sometimes, you need to temporarily revoke a user's connection rights without actually deleting the user or changing the user's password. This recipe presents the ways of doing this.

Getting ready

To modify other users, you must either be a superuser or have the CREATEROLE privilege (in the latter case, only non-superuser roles can be altered).

How to do it...

To temporarily prevent the user from logging in, run this command:

pguser=# alter user bob nologin;
ALTER ROLE

To let the user connect again, run the following...

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