Joel Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have an existing app that provides a producer / consumer type of 
> queue and that uses the LISTEN / NOTIFY mechanism to signal the 
> consumers of new items arriving in the queue.  The consumers then 
> process these items and issue a notify to signal that they have been 
> processed.  In the past issuing these notifications happened very 
> quickly, now on 8.3 I'm seeing all of them taking over 300ms and many 
> of them taking 1500ms or more!

That's strange, I would not have thought that listen/notify behavior
would change at all.  How are you measuring this delay exactly?
Can you put together a self-contained test case?

                        regards, tom lane

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