From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org> |
Cc: | pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Why READ ONLY transactions? |
Date: | 2003-12-01 18:59:50 |
Message-ID: | 200312011059.50578.josh@agliodbs.com |
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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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