Re: [PATCH] Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Why READ ONLY transactions?

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Sean Chittenden wrote:
> > > > Um, why not make it an actual full blown security feature by
> > > > applying the following patch? This gives PostgreSQL real read
> > > > only transactions that users can't escape from. Notes about the
> > > > patch:
> > >
> > > Way nifty.
> > >
> > > I vote in favor of this patch (suitably documented & debugged) for 7.5.
> >
> > Heh, there ain't much to debug: it's pretty straight forward. I ran
> > all the use cases/syntaxes I could think of and they worked as
> > expected. It's a pretty chump little ditty that I originally wrote
> > for the sake of the 7.4 PR, but it's proving to be quite useful here
> > in my tree... though I like the name "jail_read_only_transactions"
> > more... patch updated for new name.
>
> Err.. and attached. -sc
>
> --
> Sean Chittenden

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