Re: BEGIN WORK READ ONLY;

From: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PgSQL General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BEGIN WORK READ ONLY;
Date: 2006-10-14 19:46:34
Message-ID: 20061014194634.GA17544@winnie.fuhr.org
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On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 03:42:48PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> > On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:35:12AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> I don't think that works for PG's interpretation of READ ONLY, though.
> IIRC we let a "read only" transaction create and modify temp tables.

Am I missing something then?

test=> BEGIN READ ONLY;
BEGIN
test=> CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE foo (x integer);
ERROR: transaction is read-only

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Michael Fuhr

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