Re: BUG #3504: Some listening sessions never return from writing, problems ensue

"Peter Koczan" <pjkoczan@gmail.com> writes:
> This app uses Perl/DBD::Pg, and the code is basically:

> while ($dbh->func('pg_notifies')) {
>   # do stuff
> }

If I'm not mistaken, that loop would process all the currently available
notify messages and then fall out.  So the real question is what's
around this --- what conditions will make the program come back to this
loop periodically?  Or not do so?

            regards, tom lane