On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
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>> I'm working on a proof of concept patch to use Joachim's new notify
>> function to introduce case 3. I think this means going through the
>> planner and executor, so I might as well do case 4 as well.
>
> It would be a lot less work to introduce a function like send_notify()
> that could be invoked within a regular SELECT. Pushing a utility
+1
IMO, this neatly solves the problem and addresses some of the concerns
I was raising upthread. A bytea version would be nice but a text only
version is workable.
merlin