Re: Listen / Notify rewrite

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Listen / Notify rewrite
Date: 2009-11-13 17:50:11
Message-ID: 5353.1258134611@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com> writes:
> Talk of efficiency also seems silly here - using
> shared memory is already way more efficient than our current listen/notify
> system.

Except that the proposed implementation spills to disk. Particularly if
it has to have support for large payloads, it could very well end up
being a lot SLOWER than what we have now.

regards, tom lane

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