Comments:

* In standard_ProcessUtility(), case NotifyStmt, you add a comment:

    /* XXX the new listen/notify version can be enabled
     * for Hot Standby */

  but I don't think that's correct. We may be able to support LISTEN
  on the standby, but not NOTIFY (right?). I don't think we should
  be adding speculative comments anyway, because there is some work 
  still needed before HS can support LISTEN (notably, WAL-logging
  NOTIFY).

* You have a TODO list as a comment. Can you remove it and explain
  those items on list if they aren't already?

* You have the comment:

    /*
     * How long can a payload string possibly be? Actually it needs
       to be one
     * byte less to provide space for the trailing terminating '\0'.
     */

  That should be written more simply, like "Maximum size of the
  payload, including terminating NULL."

* You have the Assert:

    Assert(strlen(n->payload) <= NOTIFY_PAYLOAD_MAX_LENGTH);

  which is inconsistent with the earlier test:

    if (stmt->payload
        && strlen(stmt->payload) > NOTIFY_PAYLOAD_MAX_LENGTH - 1)
        ereport(ERROR, ...

* ASCII-only is still an open issue.

* 2PC is still an open issue (notifications are lost on restart,
  and there may be other problems, as well). I think it's easy enough
  to throw an error on PREPARE TRANSACTION if there are any 
  notifications, right?

* There's a bug where an UNLISTEN can abort, and yet you still miss
  the notification. This is because you unlisten before you actually 
  commit the transaction, and an error between those times will cause 
  the UNLISTEN to take effect even though the rest of the transaction 
  fails. For example:

    -- session 1
    LISTEN foo;
    BEGIN;
    UNLISTEN foo;

    -- session 2
    NOTIFY foo;

    -- gdb in session 1
    (gdb) break AtCommit_NotifyBeforeCommit
    (gdb) c

    -- session 1
    COMMIT;

    -- gdb in session 1
    (gdb) finish
    (gdb) p op_strict(7654322)
    (gdb) quit

  The notification is missed. It's fixed easily enough by doing the 
  UNLISTEN step in AtCommit_NotifyAfterCommit.

I'm still looking through some of the queue stuff, and I'll send an
update soon. I wanted to give you some feedback now though.

Regards,
        Jeff Davis



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