Re: notification payloads

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> We'll also need to store the database id along with the event name and 
>> message, since pg_listener is per db rather than per cluster.
> 
> Well, that's an artifact of the historical implementation ... does
> anyone want to argue that LISTEN should be cluster-wide given the
> opportunity?

That would be a problem if you try to run multiple installations of an 
application that uses NOTIFY/LISTEN in separate databases in a single 
cluster. Applications would overhear each other. I'd consider that as a 
bug, not a feature.


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