Re: LISTEN considered dangerous - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Flemming Frandsen
Subject Re: LISTEN considered dangerous
Date
Msg-id 44D03EE3.8010406@partyticket.net
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In response to Re: LISTEN considered dangerous  ("Ian Harding" <harding.ian@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: LISTEN considered dangerous  (Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz>)
Re: LISTEN considered dangerous  ("Ian Harding" <iharding@destinydata.com>)
List pgsql-general
Ian Harding wrote:
> NOTIFY interacts with SQL transactions in some important ways.
> Firstly, if a NOTIFY is executed inside a transaction, the notify
> events are not delivered until and unless the transaction is
> committed. This is appropriate, since if the transaction is aborted,
> all the commands within it have had no effect, including NOTIFY. But
> it can be disconcerting if one is expecting the notification events to
> be delivered immediately.

Yes, that's very nice, but it doesn't have *anything* to do with what I
posted about.

I'm bothered by listen listening from the end of the transaction in
stead of the start of the transaction.

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  Regards Flemming Frandsen - http://dion.swamp.dk - YAPH


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