Re: Another notify question - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jeff Davis
Subject Re: Another notify question
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Msg-id 0GTI00DPSSUX7W@mta7.pltn13.pbi.net
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In response to Re: Another notify question  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Another notify question  (Neil Conway <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org>)
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> Well, I definitely wasn't advocating that.  IMHO you should be
> guaranteed the delivery of *some* notification, but possibly one
> containing less information than what was sent.  Or you might get
> a notification when in fact none was sent.  This should be okay
> for ordinary uses of NOTIFY, as long as such cases are infrequent
> (so that you don't waste many cycles checking for events that
> didn't happen).
 Ok, that's good. Under what circumstances might I recieve less information?
I assume that the information might be truncated from the text argument, but
could you clarify?

Thanks,
    Jeff

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