CSN <cool_screen_name90001@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I'm considering setting up a script that listens for > notifications for a table and if a row is deleted the > script will delete that row's corresponding files. If > there are thousands of rows in the table, and I do > "delete from table", or even "delete from table where > id >1000 and id<2000", will the script be notified of > the deletion of each and every row (and subsequently > be able to delete that row's files), or will only one > notify event be received (or some number less than the > actual number of rows deleted)? Depends where you are doing the notify from ... but I think with the current implementation, a transaction will emit only one notify per notify event name, even if NOTIFY is executed many times within the transaction. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly