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B. Shaik, D. K. ChemuduruProcedural Programming with PostgreSQL PL/pgSQLhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9840-4_18

18. Listen and Notify

Baji Shaik1   and Dinesh Kumar Chemuduru2
(1)
Texas, TX, USA
(2)
Andhra Pradesh, India
 

In the previous chapter, we discussed aggregate concepts, where we created custom aggregates to solve users’ specific problems using state changes and final functions. In this chapter, we will talk about the LISTEN and NOTIFY commands, which act as interprocess communication between database connections. Essentially, two sessions communicate over a channel, with LISTEN looking for changes from the other session and NOTIFY sending messages ...

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