On Friday 11 Feb 2005 6:01 pm, Surabhi Ahuja wrote:
> does postgres support notifications.
>
> for eg. through one connection to the server, i begin a transaction and i
> do inserts there. in another sessions, i want to get notified that inserts
> are taking place in someother session. please help.
Umm.. out of box, I don't think so. May be some triggers etc. can be placed
for information..Can you describe what you are trying to achieve?
> a few other questions
>
> Q1. is there anyway by which we can give priorities to the transactions?
You need priorities to connections or transactions?
> Q2. is there s concept of connection pool in postgres?
Yes. See pgpool(http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgpool/)
> Q3. does postgres support multi threading? if yes how?
No. PostgreSQL backend process is single threaded. However each connection
gets a separate backend process. Hence on SMP machines, all available CPUs
can potentially be used for multiple connections.
Regards,
Shridhar
