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

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, Andrew Chernow <ac@esilo.com>, Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de>, 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: 2010-02-10T01:22:50Z
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Jeff Davis wrote:
>> So, I think ASCII is the natural choice here.

> It's not worth hanging up this facility over this issue, ISTM. If we 
> want something more that ASCII then a base64 or hex encoded string could 
> possibly meet the need in the first instance.

Yeah, that would serve people who want to push either binary or
non-ASCII data through the pipe.  It would leave all risks of encoding
problems on the user's head, though.

			regards, tom lane