Thanks. I was thinking iirc was the transport
protocol :-)
Looks like dblink is the best bet here.
--Ted
--- Richard Huxton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ted Shab wrote:
> > Richard,
> >
> > Thanks for the response.
> >
> > I'll look into both the dblink and iirc.
> >
> > Do you know of any extended examples of either?
>
> dblink is in the contrib/ folder of the source
> distribution and possibly
> your packaged version if you use such a thing. Never
> needed it myself,
> but the documentation looks clear enough.
>
> As for listen/notify possibly dropping duplicate
> notifications... Ah!
> it's in the "SQL COMMANDS" reference part of the
> manuals
>
> NOTIFY behaves like Unix signals in one important
> respect: if the same
> condition name is signaled multiple times in quick
> succession,
> recipients may get only one notify event for several
> executions of
> NOTIFY. So it is a bad idea to depend on the number
> of notifies
> received. Instead, use NOTIFY to wake up
> applications that need to pay
> attention to something, and use a database object
> (such as a sequence)
> to keep track of what happened or how many times it
> happened.
>
> --
> Richard Huxton
> Archonet Ltd
>
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