Yeah, a cron job to swap pg_hba.conf files is the best solution I've come up with so far. It's not one web app, it's closer to two dozen of them, on multiple sites. --
I have several web apps that access our Postgresql database that I'd like to lock out of the database for about an hour during a weekly maintenance interval. (There are some internal users that do not get locked out, because they're running the maintenance tasks.)
There are no time-of-day access limitation parameters in the pg_hba.conf file, are there any simple ways to do this?
Use a cron job that at beginning of period swaps out the pg_hba.conf with one that denies access, reloads server and then at end of time period reverse procedure ?
