Hello, On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 11:21:37 -0500 (EST) Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I am not sure if I am asking too much but does it make sense, and is it > > possible, to enhance NOTIFY that process "name/value" pair? Like this: > > > > NOTIFY "MyName=MyValue"; > > > > With the capability of name/value pair, the listener will not have to > > check notification details by reading tables. > > TODO already has: > > * Add optional textual message to NOTIFY > > This would allow an informational message to be added to the notify > message, perhaps indicating the row modified or other custom > information. It is possible, that some notifies, if following in a very short time frame, can get lost. In case we want to send extra text messages with NOTIFY, we should make sure, that no notify get lost. Kind regards -- Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum German PostgreSQL User Group ---------------------------(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