On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:
>> Yes. That is the case with the existing implementation as well, no?
>> We don't consider sending notifies until transaction end, so anything
>> that commits during the xact in which you UNLISTEN will get dropped.
>
> Only if the transaction containing UNLISTEN commits. Are you saying it
> would also be OK to drop NOTIFYs if a backend's UNLISTEN transaction
> aborts?
If the backend's UNLISTEN transaction aborts, then it has never
executed UNLISTEN...
So it will continue to get notifications (if it has executed a LISTEN before).
Joachim
