On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Not in libpq. libpq is just a passive library, it can't cause actions > to happen when you aren't calling it. So there's no point in a > callback: you might as well just test for occurrences of a NOTIFY at > times when you're prepared to handle it. >
On my systems where I use them more or less as "wakeup and do work" signals, I just do a select() call on the connection socket. When the signal arrives, the socket becomes readable, and then I just query for the notification. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
