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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: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
Cc: 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: 2010-02-09T21:51:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> writes:
> Looking at the documentation, it appears that all of the server
> encodings represent 7-bit ascii characters using the same 7-bit ascii
> representation. Is that true?

Correct.  We only support ASCII-superset encodings, both for frontend
and backend.

Limiting NOTIFY payloads to 7-bit would definitely avoid the issue.
The question is if that's more of a pain than a benefit.

			regards, tom lane