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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: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, 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: 2010-02-10T01:41:14Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> True. It's a workaround, but I think it's acceptable at this stage.
>> We need to get some experience with this facility before we can
>> refine it.

> Hmm?  If we decide now that it's not going to have encoding conversion,
> we won't able to change it later.

How so?  If the feature currently allows only ASCII data, the behavior
would be upward compatible with a future version that is able to accept
and convert non-ASCII characters.

			regards, tom lane