Setting the updates-allowed State on Partitions
- Last Updated: April 15, 2026
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- MarkLogic Server
- Version 12.0
- Documentation
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