Re: Listen / Notify - what to do when the queue is full

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>> Jeff Davis wrote:
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>>> So, I think ASCII is the natural choice here.
>>>       
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>   
>> It's not worth hanging up this facility over this issue, ISTM. If we 
>> want something more that ASCII then a base64 or hex encoded string could 
>> possibly meet the need in the first instance.
>>     
>
> Yeah, that would serve people who want to push either binary or
> non-ASCII data through the pipe.  It would leave all risks of encoding
> problems on the user's head, though.
>
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>   

True. It's a workaround, but I think it's acceptable at this stage. We 
need to get some experience with this facility before we can refine it.

cheers

andrew