On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:55:02AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > "Mike C" <smith.not.western@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > And for non-persistent transaction ids, the documentation says that > > this is for read-only transactions. What defines a read-only > > transaction for this purpose? > > A transaction that has not done anything that requires it to sign an > update with its transaction ID. In this context, when I set a connection to READ ONLY do any transactions run on the connection ever bother to do any of the transactional-writes housekeeping (such as txid signing) ? Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly