The following does not work: LISTEN 'foo%' Neither this: LISTEN SIMILAR TO "foo%" This works: LISTEN "foo%" But it does not act as a pattern.
We could change the SIMILAR TO something like following (accepting also type of the pattern), for example: LISTEN PATTERN 'foo%' TYPE 'similar' LISTEN PATTERN 'foo*' TYPE 'ltree' Or LISTEN PATTERN 'foo%' USING 'similar' Or LISTEN MATCH 'foo%' USING 'similar' Or LISTEN MATCH 'foo%' TYPE 'similar' Documentation is coming up. 2017-07-31 23:30 GMT+03:00 Peter Eisentraut < peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com>: > On 7/31/17 16:13, Markus Sintonen wrote: > > This patch has no know backward compatibility issues with the existing > > /LISTEN///UNLISTEN/ features. This is because patch extends the existing > > syntax by accepting quoted strings which define the patterns as opposed > > to the existing SQL literals. > > I don't see that in the patch. Your patch changes the syntax LISTEN > ColId to mean a regular expression. > > Even then, having LISTEN "foo" and LISTEN 'foo' mean different things > would probably be confusing. > > I would think about specifying an operator somewhere in the syntax, like > you have with LISTEN SIMILAR TO. It would even be nice if a > non-built-in operator could be used for matching names. > > Documentation is missing in the patch. > > -- > Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ > PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services >
