Re: How about synchronous notifications?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my>
Cc: Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>, "A(dot)M(dot)" <agentm(at)themactionfaction(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: How about synchronous notifications?
Date: 2010-09-21 16:59:25
Message-ID: 5242.1285088365@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my> writes:
> To me what would also be useful would be synchronous notifications.

AFAICS this exists already --- or if it doesn't, that's a client-library
deficiency, not something to solve by inventing more SQL functions.
The form you propose cannot work anyway since NOTIFY events are not
delivered mid-transaction.

regards, tom lane

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