> spill to disk and need an efficient storage mechanism. The natural
> implementation of this in Postgres would be a table, not the slru. If
This is what I think the people's real problem is, the implementation becomes a
more complex when including payloads (larger ones even more so). I think its a
side-track to discuss queue vs condition variables. Whether a notify is 20
bytes through the network or 8192 bytes doesn't change its design or purpose,
only its size.
Calling this a creeping feature is quite a leap.
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