On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:21 AM, Joel Jacobson <joel@trustly.com> wrote:
> 2011/12/1 Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com>
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>> On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Joel Jacobson wrote:
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>> > As you know, LISTEN/NOTIFY is broken in the Java client library. You
>> > have to
>> > do a SELECT 1 in a while-loop to receive the notifications.
>> >
>> > http://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/head/listennotify.html
>>
>> This documentation is out of date. Currently you can get notifications
>> without polling the database if you are not using a SSL connection. You
>> still must poll the driver, using PGConnection.getNotifications, but it
>> will return new notifications received without an intermediate database
>> query. This doesn't work over SSL and potentially some other connection
>> types because it uses InputStream.available that not all
>> implementations support.
>
>
> I know it works without SSL, but we need SSL for this.
>
> If it would be possible to fix it, my company is as I said willing to pay
> for the cost of such a patch.
I certainly don't want to discourage you from cleaning up the jdbc ssl
situation, but one workaround might be to use stunnel.
merlin
