On 2013-02-21 14:23:35 +0000, Albe Laurenz wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Another thing I was wondering about, but did not change, is that if we're
> > having the remote transaction inherit the local transaction's isolation
> > level, shouldn't it inherit the READ ONLY property as well?
>
> That seems to me like it would be the right thing to do.
I am not 100% convinced of that. There might be valid usecases where a
standby executes queries on the primary that executes that do DML. And
there would be no way out of it I think?
Greetings,
Andres Freund
