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?
Greetings, Klaus
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