Re: Conditional NOTIFY is not implemented - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From tomas@fabula.de
Subject Re: Conditional NOTIFY is not implemented
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Msg-id 20010907163333.A25319@www
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In response to Re: Conditional NOTIFY is not implemented  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Conditional NOTIFY is not implemented  (<matthew.copeland@honeywell.com>)
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On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:30:44AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> tomas@fabula.de writes:
> > My pattern of use for ``CREATE RULE... NOTIFY...'' was [...]

> Yeah, that is the normal and recommended usage pattern for NOTIFY, so
> getting a NOTIFY when nothing actually happened is fairly harmless.
> (Undoubtedly that's why no one complained before.)
>
> Changing the rewriter to error out when it couldn't really Do The Right
> Thing seemed like a good idea at the time, but now it seems clear that
> this didn't do anything to enhance the usefulness of the system.  Unless
> someone objects, I'll change it back for 7.2.
>
>             regards, tom lane

I won't object ;-)

Thank you again
-- tomas

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