Re: Listen and Notify - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Merlin Moncure
Subject Re: Listen and Notify
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Msg-id CAHyXU0xN8=_g2Q2PXQY2Yy+KJ+LtsEt1FqLQvGiPZSjc1GxHew@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Listen and Notify  (Alexander Reichstadt <lxr@mac.com>)
Responses Re: Listen and Notify  (Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.pgsql-general@telemetry.co.uk>)
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Alexander Reichstadt <lxr@mac.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> From the documentation I was able to build a trigger firing upon deletion of a record a function that delivers
tablename_operationas a notification one needs to subscribe to. So in terminal I can say LISTEN persons_delete and
instantlywill receive 
>
>        Asynchronous notification "persons_delete" received from server process with PID 54790.
>
> if there was a delete. But what I don't fully understand is how to do this with PQnotifies. Following the docu I get
nonotifications even though I subscribe to them after successfully connecting to the server the same way I do using
terminal.
>
> Googling didn't give me examples I was able to use. Please, can someone help?

I'm suspecting operator error because using PQnotifies is exactly what
psql does.  Maybe you could post a small test program?  Are you using
a mixed case notification name?

merlin

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