Re: LISTEN/NOTIFY support in JDBC driver?

Ben,

Since the jdbc driver doesn't poll the server, you would only see
notifications after interacting with the database in someother way.
Thus you will periodically need to issue queries to get the
notifications to be read. (note I havn't tried this, but from looking
at the code this should be the case).

thanks,
--Barry

Benjamin(dot)Feinstein(at)guardent(dot)com wrote:

> Hey ya'll,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply, Barry! I'm still having trouble getting the
> notifications from the "SQLWarning Connection.getWarnings()" method. When I
> tried to execute multiple LISTEN statments, I get warnings like:
>
> java.sql.SQLWarning: NOTICE: Async_Listen: We are already listening on
> event
>
> However, I've never gotten a notification from the warnings. Yes, I am
> sending the notifies from another connection to the same database. I've
> attached my Java test program. Could you take a look and see what I'm doing
> wrong?
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Lind [mailto:barry(at)xythos(dot)com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 10:10 PM
> To: Ben Feinstein
> Cc: pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: LISTEN/NOTIFY support in JDBC driver?
>
>
> The jdbc driver does support notifications, but in a rather strange way.
> When the driver receives a notification is takes the notification
> message and adds it to the list of warnings on the connection. So the
> way you get notifications is to call getWarnings(). Given that there
> isn't a concept like notifications in the jdbc API, this is perhaps the
> best way these can be handled within jdbc, unless someone can suggest a
> better approach.
>
> thanks,
> --Barry
>
> Benjamin(dot)Feinstein(at)guardent(dot)com wrote:
>
>
>>Hello ya'll,
>>
>>It appears that the current version of the JDBC interface for PostgreSQL
>>does not implement asyncronous client notifications. I have been able to
>>issue a NOTIFY statement through the JDBC driver, but I haven't found how
>>
> to
>
>>LISTEN for an client notification. Am I missing something, or does the
>>JDBC-PgSQL interface not support LISTEN? Does anyone know of a patch to
>>
> the
>
>>JDBC-PgSQL interface that enables the LISTEN functionality? I've looked
>>
> back
>
>>through the list archives but was unable to find any threads in this
>>
> topic.
>
>>I'm running:
>>PostgreSQL 7.1.3
>>jdbc7.1-1.2.jar
>>Sun JDK 1.3.1_01
>>
>>Thanks for any help,
>>Ben
>>
>>
>>
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