On Tuesday 03 October 2006 21:25, David J N Begley wrote: > Is anyone aware of any effort currently underway to add support for > PostgreSQL's LISTEN/NOTIFY (async notification) feature to PDO? > > At present the notification mechanism: > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/libpq-notify.html > > is only available within PHP whilst using the old-style API: > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.pg-get-notify.php > > Unfortunately this means that applications ordinarily using PDO have to > include a mixture of old/new APIs (and separate connections/sessions) if > they want to receive notification messages. I was thinking of putting some > time into proposing an addition to the PDO_PGSQL driver: > > http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdo-pgsql.php > > but didn't want to duplicate effort if someone has already written the code > to handle this feature. > I talked to Wez about this and he generally didn't know what listen/notify was so he was pretty sure no one had gotten to the point of sending in a PDO patch his way. He's certainly up for looking at a patch but had concern that this might be something with too much of a postgresql specific tone, and recommending investigating something like microsofts service broker functionality to see if some common ground could be found. HTH. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
