On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Catalin Iacob <iacobcata...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hmm, let's go back to the JDBC method, then. "show >> transaction_read_only" will return true on a standby, but presumably >> also on any other non-writable node. You could even force it to be >> true artificially if you wanted to force traffic off of a node, using >> ALTER {SYSTEM|USER ...|DATABASE ..} SET default_transaction_read_only >> = on >> >> I think that would address Alvaro's concern, and it's nicer anyway if >> libpq and JDBC are doing the same thing. > > Not sure I agree that using this is a good idea in the first place. > > But if we end up using this, I really think the docs should be very > explicit about what's implemented and not just say master/any. With > the master/any docs in the patch I would be *very* surprised if a > master is skipped only because it was configured with > default_transaction_read_only = on.
It seems like it is going to be difficult to please everyone here 100%, because there are multiple conflicting priorities. But we can definitely document whatever choices we make. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers