Joachim Wieland wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Joachim Wieland <j...@mcknight.de> wrote:
>> Given your example, what I am proposing now is to stop reading from
>> the queue once we see a not-yet-committed notification but once the
>> queue is full, read the uncommitted notifications, effectively copying
>> them over into the backend's own memory... Once the transaction
>> commits and sends a signal, we can process, send and discard the
>> previously copied notifications. In the above example, at some point
>> one, two or all three backends would see that the queue is full and
>> everybody would read the uncommitted notifications of the other one,
>> copy them into the own memory and space will be freed in the queue.
> 
> Attached is the patch that implements the described modifications.

That's still not enough if session 2 that issues the LISTEN wasn't
previously subscribed to any channels. It will still miss the notification.

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  Heikki Linnakangas
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