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Administrating MarkLogic Server

Setting the updates-allowed State on Partitions

You can change the updates-allowed state of a partition to make its forests. The possible states are shown in the table below.

State	Description
all	Read, insert, update, and delete operations are allowed on the partition.
delete-only	Read and delete operations are allowed on the partition, but insert and update operations are not allowed.
read-only	Read operations are allowed on the partition, but insert, update, and delete operations are not allowed. A transaction attempting to make changes to fragments in the partition will throw an exception. Note Resizing a read-only partition to fewer forests preserves its original forests.
flash-backup	Puts the partition in read-only mode without throwing exceptions on insert, update, or delete transactions, allowing the transactions to retry.

For example, to set the updates-allowed state in the 2011 range partition in the Documents database to read-only, do the following:

$ cat read-only-partition.xml
<partition-properties xmlns="http://marklogic.com/manage">
  <updates-allowed>read-only</updates-allowed>
</partition-properties>

$ curl --anyauth --user user:password -X PUT \
-d @read-only-partition.xml -H 'Content-type: application/xml' \
http://MyHost:8002/manage/v2/databases/Documents/partitions/2011/properties

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