On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Joe Conway wrote:
> Robert Treat wrote:
> > uh, a little too technical for this release ;-)
>
> Yeah, I knew that. I just wanted to give you the details so you would
> understand what was behind my bullets.
>
> > - Read only transactions, which bring a greater level of
> > security to web and enterprise applications by protecting data
> > from modification.
>
> Hmmm, somehow I missed this change. How is it used?
START TRANSACTION ... READ ONLY
SET TRANSACTION ... READ ONLY
I missed it too. I pulled the reference out of HISTORY and padded. Its a
very useful feature on other database systems, particularly when READ
UNCOMMITTED is also implemented.
Gavin