Tom Lane wrote:
I'm not sure what the most convenient user API would be for an on-demand hard-read-only mode, but we can't use SET TRANSACTION READ ONLY for it. It'd have to be some other syntax. Maybe just use a GUC variable instead of bespoke syntax? SET TRANSACTION is really just syntactic sugar for GUC SET operations anyway ...
We could reuse the transaction_read_only GUC, adding "strict" as a 3rd allowed value beside "on" and "off". And maybe make "ansi" an alias for "on" to emphasize that one behavior is what the standard wants, and the other is a postgres extension.
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