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

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Joachim Wieland <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, 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: 2010-02-15 12:45:26
Message-ID: 1266237926.7341.9680.camel@ebony
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On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 12:59 +0100, Joachim Wieland wrote:
> > * I think it's confusing that pg_notify is both a data structure and
> a
> > function. Suggest changing one of those to avoid issues in
> > understanding. "Use pg_notify" might be confused by a DBA.
>
> You are talking about the libpq datastructure PGnotify I suppose... I
> don't see it overly confusing but I wouldn't object changing it. There
> was a previous discussion about the name, see the last paragraph of
> http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/dc7b844e1002021510i4aaa879fy8bbdd003729d28da@mail.gmail.com

No, which illustrates the confusion nicely!
Function and datastructure.

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com

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