Articles tagged notify

PostgreSQL notifications with Psycopg2 and Eventlet

Posted by Daniele Varrazzo on 2010-12-01
Tagged as recipe, async, eventlet, notify

PostgreSQL supports asynchronous notifications, a simple messaging system allowing clients to be notified about events occurred in the database. Notifications can be sent by any session using a "NOTIFY channel" command and will be received by any session which has subscribed with a LISTEN channel to receive updates. The system has been greatly improved in PostgreSQL 9.0 with the addition of a message payload, making the feature even more useful. Previously a typical use case would have been to notify interested sessions that a certain table was updated: now it is possible to signal for instance which record was changed. You can put the NOTIFY command in a database trigger for automatic notifications on insert or update... the possibilities are actually quite interesting.

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