How do I set MySQL temporarily to read-only through the command line?

Question

I\'m creating a bash script which, among other things, gathers some data from a MySQL database. My MySQL user has write privileges, but for safety reasons I would like to te

Answer 1

If you're using MySQL 5.6 or newer and InnoDB, you can make a session read-only.

SET SESSION TRANSACTION READ ONLY;

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/set-transaction.html

"READ ONLY" also offers a modest performance benefit.