Re: problem with notify/listen - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: problem with notify/listen
Date
Msg-id 200201250152.g0P1qcQ01758@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to problem with notify/listen  (Barry Lind <barry@xythos.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
I assume this item is still open.  I put it in the 7.3 queue:
http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches2

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Barry Lind wrote:
> I have just been looking into a bug report against the jdbc driver and I 
> found the following behavior that I can't explain.
> 
> If I run jdbc with setAutoCommit=true then notifications work as 
> expected, however if I run with setAutoCommit=false then notifications 
> are not being sent from the backend to the client.
> 
> With autoCommit=false the jdbc driver is sending the following SQL 
> commands to the server:
> 
> begin
> select 1
> commit;begin;
> select 1
> commit;begin;
> select 1
> ...
> 
> My test code is using the select statement as a means to poll for the 
> notifications.  The only thing that is unusual about this is that the 
> "commit;begin;" command string is sent to the server as a single query 
> to be processed.
> 
> With autoCommit=true the SQL commands are simply:
> 
> select 1
> select 1
> select 1
> ...
> 
> In this mode the notifications work correctly.
> 
> Is there something I am doing wrong, or is this expected behavior for 
> the server?
> 
> thanks,
> --Barry
> 
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