On 3 April 2016 at 21:56, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: > Dave, > > * Dave Cramer (p...@fastcrypt.com) wrote: > > On 3 April 2016 at 15:35, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote: > > > Not generally much of a JDBC user myself, but the inability to avoid > > > polling for LISTEN notifications is a pretty big annoyance, which I > just > > > ran into with a client. I understand that -ng has a way to avoid that, > > > even for SSL connections. > > > > Yes, it is a custom api. Easy enough to add. Is this something of > interest ? > > I'd say that there is definite interest in this and there's a lot of > conversation about it on the interwebs (stackoverflow, etc). > > My understanding is that the problem is actually with the SSL library > that the JDBC driver uses and that it basically lies about if there are > bytes available for reading (claiming that there never is by always > returning zero). The -ng driver, as I understand it, uses a newer SSL > library which better supports asking if there are bytes available to > read. > > Hmmm. that complicates things...
Async notification is the easier part, I wasn't aware that the ssl library had this problem though Dave Cramer da...@postgresintl.com www.postgresintl.com