Re: Options to control remote transactions’ access/deferrable modes in postgres_fdw - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 1:25 PM Ashutosh Bapat
<ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM Etsuro Fujita <etsuro.fujita@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In the patch I also fixed a bug; I trusted XactReadOnly to see if the
> > local transaction is READ ONLY, but I noticed that that is not 100%
> > correct, because a transaction which started as READ WRITE can show as
> > READ ONLY later within subtransactions, so I modified the patch so
> > that postgres_fdw opens remote transactions in READ ONLY mode if the
> > local transaction has been declared READ ONLY at the top level.
>
> Nice catch. postgres_fdw replicates the transaction stack on foreign
> server. I think we need to replicate it along with the transaction
> properties. And also we need a test which tests readonly
> subtransaction behaviour.

Ok, will do.

Thanks for the comment!

Best regards,
Etsuro Fujita