Re: [HACKERS] LISTEN/NOTIFY improvements?

2004-12-16 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 09:56:05AM +1100, Gavin Sherry wrote: > I've got a patch floating around that does this and also moves > LISTEN/NOTIFY into the shared inval code Uh, what will happen with idle backends? -- Alvaro Herrera (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) Maybe there's lots of data loss but the rec

Re: [HACKERS] LISTEN/NOTIFY improvements?

2004-12-16 Thread Gavin Sherry
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Aaron Hillegass wrote: > I am a programmer who works on a couple of products that use PostgreSQL > as their backend (http://www.nopali.com, http://www.iwanttops.com). > Both my clients need to receive notifications when rows in the database > change. Thus far, we've been roll

[HACKERS] LISTEN/NOTIFY improvements?

2004-12-16 Thread Aaron Hillegass
I am a programmer who works on a couple of products that use PostgreSQL as their backend (http://www.nopali.com, http://www.iwanttops.com). Both my clients need to receive notifications when rows in the database change. Thus far, we've been rolling our own because LISTEN/NOTIFY doesn't do wha