| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Andrew Chernow <ac(at)esilo(dot)com>, Joachim Wieland <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de>, Greg Smith <greg(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Florian G(dot) Pflug" <fgp(at)phlo(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Arnaud Betremieux <arnaud(dot)betremieux(at)keyconsulting(dot)fr> |
| Subject: | Re: Listen / Notify - what to do when the queue is full |
| Date: | 2010-02-10 01:38:29 |
| Message-ID: | 20100210013829.GK5522@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
> >Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> >>Jeff Davis wrote:
> >>>So, I think ASCII is the natural choice here.
> >
> >>It's not worth hanging up this facility over this issue, ISTM.
> >>If we want something more that ASCII then a base64 or hex
> >>encoded string could possibly meet the need in the first
> >>instance.
> >
> >Yeah, that would serve people who want to push either binary or
> >non-ASCII data through the pipe. It would leave all risks of encoding
> >problems on the user's head, though.
>
> True. It's a workaround, but I think it's acceptable at this stage.
> We need to get some experience with this facility before we can
> refine it.
Hmm? If we decide now that it's not going to have encoding conversion,
we won't able to change it later.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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