Re: Java LISTEN/NOTIFY client library work-around

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Jan Urbański <wulczer(at)wulczer(dot)org>
Cc: Joel Jacobson <joel(at)gluefinance(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Java LISTEN/NOTIFY client library work-around
Date: 2011-11-30 13:58:04
Message-ID: 4ED6366C.7000602@dunslane.net
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On 11/30/2011 07:27 AM, Jan Urbański wrote:
> On 30/11/11 13:07, Joel Jacobson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> As you know, LISTEN/NOTIFY is broken in the Java client library. You
>> have
>> to do a SELECT 1 in a while-loop to receive the notifications.
>>
>> http://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/head/listennotify.html
>>
>> Is there some other library with a proper implementation where you don't
>> have to spam the database with queries to get the notifications?
>
> You mean a Java library? If Java is not a requirement, the psycopg2
> Python library supports notifies well.
>
>

... and probably most libraries that (unlike JDBC) are libpq-based, like
the perl DBD::Pg.

cheers

andrew

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