diff --git a/src/google/adk/sessions/database_session_service.py b/src/google/adk/sessions/database_session_service.py
index eed1d9eae6..ec38f38056 100644
--- a/src/google/adk/sessions/database_session_service.py
+++ b/src/google/adk/sessions/database_session_service.py
@@ -213,6 +213,26 @@ async def _rollback_on_exception_session(
         await sql_session.rollback()
         raise
 
+  @asynccontextmanager
+  async def _readonly_session(
+      self,
+  ) -> AsyncIterator[DatabaseSessionFactory]:
+    """Yields a read-only database session for pure SELECT operations.
+
+    On Spanner this avoids OCC read-write transactions (which can trigger
+    RetryAborted when conflicting with concurrent writes).  On PostgreSQL
+    the session is marked read-only.  On other dialects the behaviour is
+    equivalent to a regular session but the transaction is never committed.
+    """
+    async with self.database_session_factory() as sql_session:
+      conn = await sql_session.connection()
+      await conn.execution_options(postgresql_readonly=True)
+      try:
+        yield sql_session
+      except BaseException:
+        await sql_session.rollback()
+        raise
+
   def _supports_row_level_locking(self) -> bool:
     return self.db_engine.dialect.name in (
         _MARIADB_DIALECT,
@@ -403,7 +423,7 @@ async def get_session(
     # 2. Get all the events based on session id and filtering config
     # 3. Convert and return the session
     schema = self._get_schema_classes()
-    async with self._rollback_on_exception_session() as sql_session:
+    async with self._readonly_session() as sql_session:
       storage_session = await sql_session.get(
           schema.StorageSession, (app_name, user_id, session_id)
       )
@@ -458,7 +478,7 @@ async def list_sessions(
   ) -> ListSessionsResponse:
     await self._prepare_tables()
     schema = self._get_schema_classes()
-    async with self._rollback_on_exception_session() as sql_session:
+    async with self._readonly_session() as sql_session:
       stmt = select(schema.StorageSession).filter(
           schema.StorageSession.app_name == app_name
       )