On 2015-11-03 17:19:43 +1100, Haribabu Kommi wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Thomas Munro
> <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Thomas Munro
> > <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> > This made me wonder what happens if a background worker calls LISTEN.
> > NotifyMyFrontEnd simply logs the notifications, since there is no remote
> > libpq to sent a message to. Perhaps a way of delivering to background
> > workers could be developed, though of course there are plenty of other kinds
> > of IPC available already.
>
> With this commit - bde39eed0cafb82bc94c40e95d96b5cf47b6f719, it is not possible
> to execute Notify commands inside a parallel worker. Can't we change
> it as disable both listen and notify commands inside a background worker?
Well, parallel workers are something different from general background
workers. I don't see why it'd make sense to allow listen/notify there,
given the rest of the restrictions?
Andres