In article <44D0478D.3060201@partyticket.net>,
Flemming Frandsen <ff@partyticket.net> writes:
>> I would still expect any
>> reimplementation of notify messaging to honor the principle that a
>> LISTEN doesn't take effect till you commit.
> Naturally, the listen should not do anything at all when followed by a
> rollback.
> However if you start listening in a transaction then you should get
> all events that have happened after the snapshot that the transaction
> represents (the start of the transaction).
Here you're contradicting yourself. In your second paragraph you
state that LISTEN should get events unless later cancelled by a
ROLLBACK. How should LISTEN know if its transaction will commit or
abort?