Re: [ADMIN] Storing database in WORM devices

On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 03:51:43PM -0400, GGoshen@axsone.com scratched on the wall:
> I would like to clarify something.
> I intend to create the database on a re-writable device (not WORM).
> At some point, when I no longer want to add/modify the database, I
> plan to copy it to the WORM device. Then I would like to be able to
> access the database on the WORM device for reading purposes only.

What you are basically saying is you want a read-only database on a
CD-R (which is essentially a WORM device).  As has been discussed
many times in the past, Postgres does not support this very well, if
at all.

  -j

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