Re: BUG #15293: Stored Procedure Triggered by Logical Replication is Unable to use Notification Events

From: Artur Zakirov <artur(dot)zakirov(at)adjust(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Sergey Fedchenko <seregayoga(at)bk(dot)ru>, Daniel Danzberger <daniel(at)dd-wrt(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Sergei Kornilov <sk(at)zsrv(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Marc Dean <marc(dot)dean(dot)jr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "michael(dot)paul(dot)powers(at)gmail(dot)com" <michael(dot)paul(dot)powers(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Welin <robert(at)vaion(dot)com>
Subject: Re: BUG #15293: Stored Procedure Triggered by Logical Replication is Unable to use Notification Events
Date: 2021-09-15 12:03:25
Message-ID: CAFt03JOSvF2jvn76DmcZbjSFkw2BRTfWr9e1rPrN66LVT+bTkQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 2:57 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Hearing no comments, I pushed that.

Thank you!

> > I'm inclined to think we should flat-out reject LISTEN in any process
> > that is not attached to a frontend, at least until somebody takes the
> > trouble to add infrastructure that would let it be useful. I've not
> > done that here though; I'm not quite sure what we should test for.
>
> After a bit of looking around, it seems that MyBackendType addresses
> that problem nicely, so I propose the attached.

Indeed, it seems only regular backends can send out notifies to
frontends. In that case there is no point in supporting LISTEN to
other processes. I guess a background worker can try it with SPI, but
with no luck.
+1 from my sight.

--
Artur

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