On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:41:17AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Klaus Naumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> what. Allowing that to be turned off would be interesting for a number > >> of purposes, such as burning a database onto CD. > > > FWIW, Oracle suggests a "transportable tablespace" for this feature. > > Which is a tablespace that is not written too and which can be read by > > any database. > > Would that solve the purposes you mean? > > It's a very long way from here to there. In particular, since different > installations have different transaction histories, the XIDs in the > table could not be transportable.
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