Thread: Application data refreshing

Application data refreshing

From
Jesus Sandoval
Date:
I tried to find information in the lists but got no luck.

I want to make a client application that performs a query to show the
results, but the client application stays open and the database gets
updated.

I want that the updates of the database reflects on the open client
application, I think this can be done with triggers but I'm not sure how

to do this if there are 3 (or more) client applications open at the same

time, how the trigger can send a refresh to the 3 (or more) of them.

Can anybody help me????


Re: Application data refreshing

From
Charles Tassell
Date:
I think you can do this with the listen/notify commands.  I've never done
it myself, but take a look at
http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.0/programmer/pgtcl-pglisten.htm
and some of the other Postgres docs and you should be able to figure it
out.  From what I read, you have your programs send a notify after doing an
update, then the other's are all listening for that notify, and then can be
instructed to reload the data.

At 02:23 AM 9/21/00, Jesus Sandoval wrote:
>I tried to find information in the lists but got no luck.
>
>I want to make a client application that performs a query to show the
>results, but the client application stays open and the database gets
>updated.
>
>I want that the updates of the database reflects on the open client
>application, I think this can be done with triggers but I'm not sure how
>
>to do this if there are 3 (or more) client applications open at the same
>
>time, how the trigger can send a refresh to the 3 (or more) of them.
>
>Can anybody help me????