> Given the large number of installations I've come across that have
> been very happy with the previous LISTEN/NOTIFY, it's *far* from being
> useless in the versions we have out there today. There's certainly
> been room for improvement - which we now have - but calling it useless
> just tells me you're far disconnected from reality :P
Ah. I'd had a completely different experience; tried to use
listen/notify for two different projects and had to give up and use
something else.
> Uh, the LISTEN/NOTIFY change is as much an incremental improvement as
> the windowing functions, to keep up with your examples. You could do
> them both previously, but neither solution really scaled.
Yeah, I guess I'm a bit focused on the appdev crowd these days in
exclusion to the big database people. Comes of my current travel and
clientele.
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