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

Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>

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

Cc: Arnaud Betremieux <arnaud.betremieux@keyconsulting.fr>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Cyrille Chépélov <cyrille.chepelov@keyconsulting.fr>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org

Date: 2010-01-11T13:51:24Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
>> I'm working on a proof of concept patch to use Joachim's new notify
>> function to introduce case 3. I think this means going through the
>> planner and executor, so I might as well do case 4 as well.
>
> It would be a lot less work to introduce a function like send_notify()
> that could be invoked within a regular SELECT.  Pushing a utility

+1

IMO, this neatly solves the problem and addresses some of the concerns
I was raising upthread.  A bytea version would be nice but a text only
version is workable.

merlin