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> So I'm curious why are you using start transaction readonly when there is an API for this? setAutoCommit(false) and setReadOnly(true)

Because ,Jdbc js bad design,Starting a database transaction should maintain integrity, so it must be a single SQL statement.   This is good design , startTransaction(TransactionOption option).