Check out the NOTIFY and LISTEN commands. I usually create a small
function that fires off a notify on INSERT DELETE or UPDATE and then I
simply have my application LISTEN for these notifies.
No external program necessary.
Jason
Vincent AE Scott <pgsql-novice@codex.net> writes:
> What would be a reliable way for a client accessing postgres to be
> informed asynchronosly of inserts/updates/deletes to a table? I'm
> thinking of something that has fairly fine grained control over what it
> gets notified of. Something like a client registering (somewhere) a
> select statement, and when a matching row changes to be informed about
> it.
>
> I guess this would require some external program, and possibly
> programmed trigger modules in the database?
>
> Is this even theoretically possible? Or would the overhead under heavy
> loads completely kill the database?
>
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