[Lazarus] Postgresql listen/notify

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Marco van de Voort wrote:
> On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 08:01:45AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>> I don't know whether it should be treated as a candidate for an 
>> extension to the sql-db API, since as far as I know there's something 
>> comparable (implemented very differently) on Firebird but nothing else.
> 
> If it is table or row change notifications, MSSQL has it since iirc version
> 2005.

It's not, PostgreSQL would probably call those triggers. It's a general 
notification mechanism which can be used between programs connected to 
the same database irrespective of what they're doing with tables, see 
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/sql-notify.html (I've 
intentionally referenced a fairly old version there, since recent 
changes have added an additional parameter etc.).

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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