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

> 
> That is, if the queue overflows what you should do is drop the
> payloads and condense all the messages for a given class into a single
> notification for that class with "unknown payload". That way if a
> cache which wants to invalidate specific objects gets a queue overflow
> condition then at least it knows it should rescan the original data
> and rebuild the cache and not just serve invalid data.
> 

That's far more complicated than throwing an error and it discards user payload 
information.  Let the error indicate a rescan is needed.

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