On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 03:51:43PM -0400, GGoshen@xxxxxxxxxx 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 -- Jay A. Kreibich | CommTech, Emrg Net Tech Svcs jak@xxxxxxxx | Campus IT & Edu Svcs <http://www.uiuc.edu/~jak> | University of Illinois at U/C ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly