On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, [iso-8859-1] Rajkumar Selvaraj wrote: > Please mail me ur replies on the following : > 1).I would like to know how to stop users who have > already opened up sessions with my database without > stopping the postmaster > service. Well, the problem is that if you stop them, any modifications done by those users in a transaction will be lost, but you could probably kill the postgres processes opened for each user. > 2).I would also like to know whether the command > pg_dump prevents any user from writing or modifying my > database until > th process is completed. If not,will it ensure > transactional integrity until the backup process is > completed ? No it doesn't, but IIRC, pg_dump is going to run as one transaction meaning that it should see a consistant state of the database which wouldn't include any non-committed transactions at the start of the dump. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])