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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Chernow <ac@esilo.com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] libpq events patch (with sgml docs)
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:14:16 -0400
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"Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Andrew Chernow <ac@esilo.com> wrote:
>> BTW, the event system might be an alternative solution for PGNoticeHooks
>> (PGEVT_NOTICE).

> Another possible use of the event hooks -- just spitballing here -- is
> to generate an event when a notification comes through (you would
> still receive events the old way., by command or PQconsumeInput).

Seems rather pointless; you'd just be adding multiple ways to do things
we can do perfectly well now.

> Maybe this would eventually replace the current notification interface
> (wasn't this going to be changed anyways?)

No, I don't think anyone was unhappy with the libpq API for it.

			regards, tom lane

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