On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 12:00 AM, vinny <vinny@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So, your read-only mode is basically a flag that forces your code to > always issue a rollback at the end, instead of a commit for read/write > mode. > > I find that a bit scary. :-) It's three things: 1) BEGIN TRANSACTION READ ONLY instead of BEGIN TRANSACTION 2) A high level flag that tells the PHP code that it ought not to change things 3) ROLLBACK instead of COMMIT ChrisA -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general