Received: from localhost (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7557D9FA18F for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 12:10:37 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 59891-04 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 12:10:26 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.4 Received: from main2.mycybernet.net (main2.mycybernet.net [209.222.63.140]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80D2B9F9312 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 12:10:32 -0400 (AST) Received: from 227-54-222-209.mycybernet.net ([209.222.54.227] helo=phlogiston.dydns.org) by main2.mycybernet.net with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H28pN-0002qv-4s for pgsql-sql@postgresql.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:18:57 -0500 Received: by phlogiston.dydns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BA0CC4051; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 11:10:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 11:10:21 -0500 From: Andrew Sullivan To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [SQL NOTIFY Help] sending NOTIFY to the external program Message-ID: <20070103161021.GA8599@phlogiston.dyndns.org> References: <47230CE166B64744B0120173E4C2161E0103E6A1@BLR-EC-MBX01.wipro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47230CE166B64744B0120173E4C2161E0103E6A1@BLR-EC-MBX01.wipro.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200701/7 X-Sequence-Number: 27159 On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 07:47:34PM +0530, ramachandra.bhaskaram@wipro.com wrote: > > Yes, our application is supposed to know *immediately* that a change in > the database has occurred since, NOTIFY doesn't get you that anyway. It's _close_ to immediately, but it's still asynchronous. A -- Andrew Sullivan | ajs@crankycanuck.ca A certain description of men are for getting out of debt, yet are against all taxes for raising money to pay it off. --Alexander Hamilton