Re: Listen / Notify - what to do when the queue is full

> We should probably also log the fact that we ran out of room, so that
> the DBA knows that they ahve a design issue.

Can't they just bump allowed memory and avoid a redesign?

> Alternately, it would be great to have a configuration option which
> would allow the DBA to choose any of 3 behaviors via GUC:
> 
> drop-oldest (as above)
> drop-largest (if we run out of room, drop the largest payloads first to
> save space)
> error (if we run out of room, error and rollback)
> 

I mentioned this up thread.  I completely agree that overflow behavior should be 
tunable.

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