Re: [SQL NOTIFY Help] sending NOTIFY to the external program

ramachandra(dot)bhaskaram(at)wipro(dot)com wrote:
> Hi Richard Huxton,
>
> Thank you for your kind response.
>
> Is there not any other way other than record the pkey in a
> "process_these" table and have the application check there. We want
> to minimise the database transactions to improve the DB performance.
>
> Can we send the exact data which has been changed using
> db-notify to the application? So that, the application can continue
> processing the data using the Notify message from the DB.

Not via your database connection.

With one of the untrusted languages (C, pl/perlu pl/pythonu etc) you
could do anything you could make a separate connection / write to a file
etc.

Does your application need to know *immediately* that a change in the
database has occurred?

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd