Re: Accessing Database files on a "read-only" medium...like a CD. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Kelly Harmon
Subject Re: Accessing Database files on a "read-only" medium...like a CD.
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In response to Accessing Database files on a "read-only" medium...like a CD.  ("Kelly Harmon" <kelly.harmon@byers.com>)
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> And Postgres is not very forgiving if it ever figures out that it's been
> tricked...that definitely needs to be worked out.
>

What I'm sort of leaning towards is to catch these attempted writes early
on, and not have to deal with a lot of cleaning up after the fact.

I guess Postgres already supports the concept of a "read-only" database from
a user permissions perspective, right?  So maybe take advantage of that
existing functionality?






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