On 02/21/2017 02:19 PM, Rob Brucks wrote:
I did find a post a while back saying they were discarded, but I wanted
to double-check.



I performed some tests to see if listens worked AFTER the notify was
issued, they were not.  This leads me to believe that the messages are
discarded when a listen does not yet exist.

Seems the thing to do would be to monitor the size of :

$PG_DATA/pg_notify/




--Rob



*From: *"David G. Johnston" <[email protected]>
*Date: *Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at 3:38 PM
*To: *Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
*Cc: *Rob Brucks <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
*Subject: *Re: [GENERAL] NOTIFY command impact



On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Adrian Klaver
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    On 02/21/2017 01:07 PM, Rob Brucks wrote:


        Do you see any long-term problems with constantly issuing "NOTIFY"
        commands every 30 seconds without an associated "LISTEN" command?



    Depending on how long 'long term' is:

    https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/sql-notify.html

    "There is a queue that holds notifications that have been sent but
    not yet processed by all listening sessions



​Its not clear in the OP that this is the case (it seems to be) but the
documentation is non-specific as to what happens when "# of listeners" =
0;  I suspect that said messages are created and then immediately
discarded - though apparently they do make it over to the standby server
​ too - and likely also immediately discarded there as well.



David J.





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