| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Why READ ONLY transactions? |
| Date: | 2003-12-01 19:12:46 |
| Message-ID: | 200312011912.hB1JCkM27624@candle.pha.pa.us |
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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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