"Peter Koczan" <pjkoczan@gmail.com> writes:
> This app uses Perl/DBD::Pg, and the code is basically:

> while ($dbh->func('pg_notifies')) {
> # do stuff
> }

If I'm not mistaken, that loop would process all the currently available
notify messages and then fall out. So the real question is what's
around this --- what conditions will make the program come back to this
loop periodically? Or not do so?

regards, tom lane

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