Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> writes:
> It might make sense to change the semantics so that we never lose a
> notification, if we're going to implement NOTIFY 'msg', but that's another
> discussion.
That's pretty much a given --- the ability to pass some payload data in
notifications has been on the TODO list for a very long time. I don't
think we're going to reimplement listen/notify without adding it.
I like your suggestion of "topic" for the notify name, and am tempted to
go fix the documentation to use that term right now ...
regards, tom lane