Re: LISTEN considered dangerous - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Vivek Khera
Subject Re: LISTEN considered dangerous
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Msg-id B3F90CA4-4443-496A-8950-FC4B2C3E5CF8@khera.org
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In response to Re: LISTEN considered dangerous  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-general
On Aug 2, 2006, at 2:07 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> that the OP's complaint is valid.  I would still expect any
> reimplementation of notify messaging to honor the principle that a
> LISTEN doesn't take effect till you commit.  Otherwise, what of

Well, it would break our usage of LISTEN/NOTIFY if they did not honor
transactions, so back-compatibility is in my book the most important
reason not to change that behavior.


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