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

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

To: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

Cc: Andrew Chernow <ac@esilo.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, 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: 2010-02-10T00:56:40Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Jeff Davis wrote:
> Also, the query starts out as text, so we need a way to interpret the
> text in an encoding-independent way.
>
> 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.

cheers

andrew