Re: Listen / Notify rewrite

From: "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Listen / Notify rewrite
Date: 2009-11-17 02:28:37
Message-ID: c96ab72010e16e08ad8b4ab37cc141e8@biglumber.com
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> old method scaled (badly) on volume of notifications and your stuff
> seems to scale based on # of client's sending simultaneous
> notifications. Well, you're better all day long, but it shows that
> your fears regarding locking were not completely unfounded. Do the
> Burcardo people have any insights on the #of simultaneous notifies are
> generated from different backends?

Very low. On a busy system I know of there are about 90 entries in
pg_listener, and I would guess that the maximum rate of simulataneous
notifies is not more than 3 per second, tops. If someone knows an
easy way to measure such a thing and is really curious, I can see about
getting better numbers.

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Greg Sabino Mullane greg(at)turnstep(dot)com
End Point Corporation
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