Re: Listen / Notify - what to do when the queue is full

Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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>> We still need to decide what to do with queue full situations in
>> the proposed listen/notify implementation. I have a new version
>> of the patch to allow for a variable payload size. However, the
>> whole notification must fit into one page so the payload needs
>> to be less than 8K.
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> That sounds fine to me, FWIW.
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Agreed. Thank you for all your work.

>> 1) drop new notifications if the queue is full (silently or with rollback)
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> I like this one best, but not with silence of course. While it's not the most
> polite thing to do, this is for a super extreme edge case. I'd rather just
> throw an exception if the queue is full rather than start messing with the

+1

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