Re: NOTIFY with tuples

On Dec 13, 2011, at 8:21 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

>> I'm not sure whether we'd want something like this in core, so for a
>> first go-around, you might want to consider building it as an
>> extension. ...  I'm not sure you
>> need NOTIFY for anything anywhere in here.
> 
> Actually, what I'd suggest is just some code to serialize and
> deserialize tuples and transmit 'em via the existing NOTIFY payload
> facility.  I agree that presenting it as some functions would be a lot
> less work

The ability to cast RECORDs to JSON would be awesome for this.

Best,

David