From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199805220436.AAA19514@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Time to fix libpgtcl for async NOTIFY
To: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane)
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 00:36:32 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org, pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
In-Reply-To: <23936.895792415@sss.pgh.pa.us> from "Tom Lane" at May 21,
	98 07:13:35 pm
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

> There's some risk of breaking existing applications, since the apps
> might not be prepared for pg_listen callbacks occurring except at the
> specific time they execute pg_notifies.  But that doesn't seem really
> likely to be a problem.  Besides, since both these commands are
> undocumented, I imagine not very many libpgtcl applications use them.
> (A quick search of the archives turned up only a message from Massimo
> Dal Zotto about this topic, and he seemed to agree that getting rid of
> pg_notifies would be better.)
> 
> Any comments?

Yep, get rid of the old stuff.  I am sure people didn't use it because
of the performance problem.  Your cleanup will make it use-able.

-- 
Bruce Momjian                          |  830 Blythe Avenue
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us              |  Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026
  +  If your life is a hard drive,     |  (610) 353-9879(w)
  +  Christ can be your backup.        |  (610) 853-3000(h)