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Re: Listen / Notify - what to do when the queue is full

Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, "Florian G. Pflug" <fgp@phlo.org>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Arnaud Betremieux <arnaud.betremieux@keyconsulting.fr>
Date: 2010-02-15T12:45:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 12:59 +0100, Joachim Wieland wrote:
> > * I think it's confusing that pg_notify is both a data structure and
> a
> > function. Suggest changing one of those to avoid issues in
> > understanding. "Use pg_notify" might be confused by a DBA.
> 
> You are talking about the libpq datastructure PGnotify I suppose... I
> don't see it overly confusing but I wouldn't object changing it. There
> was a previous discussion about the name, see the last paragraph of
> http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/dc7b844e1002021510i4aaa879fy8bbdd003729d28da@mail.gmail.com

No, which illustrates the confusion nicely!
Function and datastructure.

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