Re: BEGIN WORK READ ONLY;

On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:35:12AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Command Prompt has been teaching alot of classes lately, and one of the
> questions that I received recently was:
>
> What is the use case for a READ ONLY transaction?

It would be handy for things like pgpool and Continuent, which could
reliably distinguish up front the difference between a transaction
that can write and one that can safely be sliced up and dispatched to
read-only databases.

Cheers,
D
> I haven't been able to come up with a good answer. Anyone got a use case
> for this feature? I know the community didn't implement it for giggles.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>
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