Re: Connecting to NOTIFY with telnet - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: Connecting to NOTIFY with telnet
Date
Msg-id 20190503200959.cccciim62iidyj3j@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Connecting to NOTIFY with telnet  (Igal Sapir <igal@lucee.org>)
Responses Re: Connecting to NOTIFY with telnet
List pgsql-general
Hi,

On 2019-05-03 11:06:09 -0700, Igal Sapir wrote:
> Is it possible to connect to Postgres for notifications via telnet?  This
> is obviously more for learning/experimenting purposes.

No. The protocol is too complicated to make that realistically doable /
useful.


> I expected a simple way to connect and consume notifications but can not
> find any example or documentation on how to do that.

If you really wanted to go down that road, you'd have to read the
protocol specs. It'd not make sense to document how-to steps for
something as low-level as this.

Greetings,

Andres Freund



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