Re: Notify enhancement

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Notify enhancement
Date: 2006-12-04 14:33:11
Message-ID: 20061204143311.GC28324@alvh.no-ip.org
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> Ok. But I think the buffer size as a whole needs to be fixed, no? And if
> so, we probably need some limit on message size to prevent "NOTIFY
> some_event 'a really long string'; " from filling up the buffer in one hit.
>
> I'm also trying to figure out what a reasonable default buffer size will
> be. Thinking of the needs for which I will be providing (one listener,
> small names/payloads), 256Kb or 512Kb would be ample, possibly even
> excessive. But other users might have bigger needs.

Make it configurable via GUC.

What will happen when the ring is full? NOTIFY blocks?

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