| From: | "Jay A(dot) Kreibich" <jak(at)uiuc(dot)edu> |
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| To: | GGoshen(at)axsone(dot)com |
| Cc: | armtuk(at)gmail(dot)com, doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Storing database in WORM devices |
| Date: | 2005-05-11 20:32:28 |
| Message-ID: | 20050511203227.GA8262@uiuc.edu |
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On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 03:51:43PM -0400, GGoshen(at)axsone(dot)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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