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

Josh Berkus wrote:
> 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.

I remember something like that, but I thought the patch was the result
of that discussion.  Tom?

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