In my environment  which is linux on the server side and both windows and 
linux on the client side I have noticed that the introduction of pg_notify 
(with payload) makes the size of the postgres processes on the server side 
increase much more than before I used the notifiy calls. My server 
interface is a pure psm interface and I use the pg_notify inside my psm:s. 


I understand that a server process connected to a client which is 
listening for notifies must in some way store the data sent before it is 
consumed by the client. By my problem is that my linux clients don't 
listen for any notifications. And still the corresponding postgres process 
on the server side seems to grow out of control (checked with ps axuw %MEM 
column).

This is currently a big problem for me since my linux application is an 
embedded application with very limited resources.

And yes. I must have the notfify functionality since I'm using it from my 
Windows clients.

My postgres version is  9.04

Is this behaviour to be expected or is there a memory problem in this 
area? 

Any idea anyone?


Per-Olov Esgård



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