Re: LISTEN / NOTIFY

Steve/David,
Thanks for response. I will look into this further.

Regards,
Aditya.

On Monday, October 11, 2021, Steve Midgley <science(at)misuse(dot)org> wrote:

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> On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 8:36 AM David G. Johnston <
> david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> On Monday, October 11, 2021, aditya desai <admad123(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>> Has anyone implemented LISTEN / NOTIFY to enqueue and dequeue messages
>>> to and from Postgres? Do you have steps to implement it?
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>> Listen/notify are not a queuing system, they are a notification system.
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> I agree with David - you _could_ implement a work queue using LISTEN /
> NOTIFY as primitive components, but they are not anything like a complete
> queuing system. I would recommend implementing any number of open source or
> licensed message queue solutions that will work with Postgres. RabbitMQ is
> widely known and used. I've used SideKiq and Resque (both being in Ruby, a
> language I like). I think it would be unwise to implement your own queue
> system directly on top of LISTEN/NOTIFY. There are so many edge cases to
> queue management, it's almost like implementing your own encryption
> algorithm on top of Postgres' math functions. There are OSS tools out there
> that will almost certainly do what you want.
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> Steve
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