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Subject: Re: PgAdmin 4.2 unable to connect to AWS Postgres read-replica
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"Bawol, Brian" <brian.bawol@freightverify.com> writes:
> My co-worker and I are both receiving the following error message when
> attempting to connect to AWS Postgres 10.4 (and 10.6) database instances
> using PgAdmin 4.2:

> "ERROR: cannot execute SELECT in a read-only transaction"

That seems pretty strange.  What's the actual underlying query that's
failing?  (The server log should show that, as a appendage to the
occurrence of this error, even if PgAdmin won't tell you.)

			regards, tom lane