> Many people clearly do think this is useful. It also comes under the heading of "avoiding surprising behavior". That is, users instinctively expect to be able to LISTEN on standbys, and are surprised when they can't.
> I personally don't think it will be that complex. I'm willing to > review and maintain it if the patch works the way we want it to. > I think we need some performance testing for the review for it to be valid. 1) How does this patch affect the speed and throughput of LISTEN/NOTIFY on a standalone server? 2) Can we actually attach more LISTENers to multiple standbys than we could to a single Master? Unfortunately, I don't have an application which can LISTEN in a way which doesn't eclipse any differences in througput or response time we would see on the DB side. Does anyone? -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://pgexperts.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
