On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:41:17AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Klaus Naumann <lists@distinctmind.de> 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.
Unless the tables are frozen first.
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