Re: Building a notification system.

From: Anto Aravinth <anto(dot)aravinth(dot)cse(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Building a notification system.
Date: 2018-07-15 16:58:32
Message-ID: CANtp6R+t9U79bh0-1MTwMpy0V4jhxEuMNNikvBvRAvpYsRuuew@mail.gmail.com
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So just maintaining a notification table along with user id would do I
believe. Just notifies the user if he/she has the userid in notification
table and its not in read state.

On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 10:23 PM, David G. Johnston <
david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Sunday, July 15, 2018, David G. Johnston <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sunday, July 15, 2018, Anto Aravinth <anto(dot)aravinth(dot)cse(at)gmail(dot)com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm not sure, how to get started with this. Read about NOTIFY:
>>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-notify.html
>>>
>>>
>>> Not sure that fits my use case, thanks for your help in this.
>>>
>>
>> It doesn't. You need to record time stamps for the relevant events and
>> use them to decide what is new and what is old.
>>
>
> Or, to avoid time skew issues, an equivalent protocol using serial
> (big)integers (see create sequence)
>
> David J.
>
>

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