You cannot use the tx_read_only in the .cnf file. You must specifiy transaction_read_only = 1 for it to set the value of tx_read_only on system startup.

Conversely we do not seem to be able to do…

SET SESSION transaction_read_only = OFF;

Is this intended?

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