Re: Options to control remote transactions’ access/deferrable modes in postgres_fdw

From: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh(dot)bapat(dot)oss(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Etsuro Fujita <etsuro(dot)fujita(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Options to control remote transactions’ access/deferrable modes in postgres_fdw
Date: 2025-03-27 12:25:24
Message-ID: CAExHW5vVwZdvW1Dfy3oJXVDBffJUvAwhaCw3HCSC38B1ie_H1A@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM Etsuro Fujita <etsuro(dot)fujita(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> In the patch I also fixed a bug; I trusted XactReadOnly to see if the
> local transaction is READ ONLY, but I noticed that that is not 100%
> correct, because a transaction which started as READ WRITE can show as
> READ ONLY later within subtransactions, so I modified the patch so
> that postgres_fdw opens remote transactions in READ ONLY mode if the
> local transaction has been declared READ ONLY at the top level.

Nice catch. postgres_fdw replicates the transaction stack on foreign
server. I think we need to replicate it along with the transaction
properties. And also we need a test which tests readonly
subtransaction behaviour.

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Best Wishes,
Ashutosh Bapat

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