Re: NOTIFY/LISTEN on read-only slave?

Greg Smith wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> >   
> >> Our documentation says listen/notify will return an error if executed on
> >> the hot standby server:
> >>     
> >>     o LISTEN, UNLISTEN, NOTIFY since they currently write to system tables 
> >>     
> >> With the listen/notify system now implemented in memory, is this still
> >> true?
> >>     
> >
> > The explanation is wrong, but it's still disallowed.
> >   
> 
> What's the actual reason for the restriction then?  I did a whole 
> proofreading round on the HS documentation the other day and am working 
> on a patch to clean up everything I found, can add better notes about 
> this to it.

Oops, I did cleanup on the HS docs all day today in response to a doc
patch that was posted in December.  How extensive are your changes?

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