From:	Andrew Dunstan	Date:	Sat Jul 26 21:38:01 2008
Subject:	Re: [svn:DBD-Pg] r11596 - in DBD-Pg/trunk: . lib/Bundle/DBD t

David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Jul 26, 2008, at 20:01, turnstep@cvs.perl.org wrote:
>
>> +=head3 B<ReadOnly> (boolean)
>> +
>> +$dbh->{ReadOnly} = 1;
>> +
>> +Specifies if the current database connection should be in read-only 
>> mode or not.
>> +In this mode, changes that change the database are not allowed and 
>> will throw
>> +an error. Note: this method will B<not> work if L</AutoCommit> is true.
>> +
>
> Great idea, but is this a standard DBI attribute? If not, it should 
> probably be "pg_readonly" (or "pg_read_only"), no?
>
>

How do you propose to enforce it given the ability of functions to have 
side efects? By rolling back every transaction?

cheers

andrew