"Pavan Deolasee" <pavan.deolasee@gmail.com> writes:
> I think we should disallow starting a read-write transaction during
> recovery. The patch attempts to do that by setting transaction mode to
> read-only, but not enough to prevent somebody to explicitly mark the
> transaction as read-write.
Huh? The "read only" transaction mode is not hard read-only anyway,
so if that's the only step being taken, it's entirely useless.
regards, tom lane