Re: LISTEN/NOTIFY

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Cristóvão Dalla Costa <cbraga(at)bsi(dot)com(dot)br>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: LISTEN/NOTIFY
Date: 2002-10-05 02:54:02
Message-ID: 264.1033786442@sss.pgh.pa.us
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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Crist=F3v=E3o_Dalla_Costa?= <cbraga(at)bsi(dot)com(dot)br> writes:
> I'm developing an e-commerce site using Apache/mod_perl and, for
> performance, I intend to cache rows such as user and product information
> inside Perl. I think the LISTEN/NOTIFY interface would be perfect for
> invalidating the cache when a product/user gets updated, yet I have not
> found a way to access it from Perl -- DBI, or DBD::Pg even, offer no way
> to "listen".

I don't know what the DBI/DBD design philosophy is regarding
database-specific extensions --- but it would seem reasonable to me
for DBD::Pg to offer some way to get at LISTEN functionality. Can
anyone suggest how to do this in the context of DBI?

I suggest moving any followups to pgsql-interfaces, where this
discussion would be more on-topic.

regards, tom lane

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