Sean Chittenden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The async interface is nice, but not really useful to me as it requires
> polling, instead of unblocking when an event comes through, which would
> create a vastly more real time interface that should be easier on the
> database.
BTW, this is nonsense; the backend sends a message exactly when the
NOTIFY occurs. It may well be that libpq needs some work to make it
easier to wait for a NOTIFY without polling, but again there isn't a
reason to clutter the server-side code with it.
regards, tom lane
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