Daniele Varrazzo <daniele.varrazzo@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> As mentioned above and as demonstrated in the example, select() also >> does the job. Using such a fancy framework is usually an overkill. > Yeah, the problem is usually if you have to do something else apart > from listening from the notification. select() will block the entire > application, so you would put it into a separate thread to have the > app running on. I don't know Python, but the C library function of select() has a timeout parameter that can be set to 0. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general