On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, John R Pierce wrote:
> does Connection.setReadOnly(true) block pgjdbc from automatically issuing
> BEGIN;, similar to setAutoCommit(true) ?
No.
> if not, why not?
>
Just because your connection is readonly doesn't mean that everyone elses
is as well. If you want a consistent view of the database you can get
that with a serializable transaction.
Kris Jurka