Re: Questions about Listen/Notify mechanism - Mailing list pgsql-jdbc

From Oliver Jowett
Subject Re: Questions about Listen/Notify mechanism
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Msg-id 4C437CE6.2030508@opencloud.com
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In response to Questions about Listen/Notify mechanism  (max <maxbox@directbox.com>)
List pgsql-jdbc
max wrote:

> "A key limitation of the JDBC driver is that it cannot receive
> asynchronous notifications and must poll the backend to check if any
> notifications were issued."

The reason for this is that the driver does not have a separate I/O
thread, so the driver code is only running (and reading from the
database connection) when a query is run by the application.

-O

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