Re: [PATCH] Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Why READ ONLY transactions? - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: [PATCH] Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Why READ ONLY transactions?
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Msg-id 200312011059.50578.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: [PATCH] Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Why READ ONLY transactions?  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [PATCH] Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Why READ ONLY transactions?
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Bruce,

> This seems like a valuable feature, as others have mentioned.  However,
> should it also prevent changes to default_transaction_read_only?
>
> What is the use case for this functionality?

I thought that this was rejected thouroughly by Tom some months ago.  He
argued pretty strongly that READ ONLY transactions were *not* a security
feature and that trying to make them one would work very poorly.

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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