Re: LISTEN/NOTIFY enhancement: Portable signal handling?

>> NOTIFY 'relname' a_expr;
> This would be great to have...at least I think this is what you are
> driving at: (adding a noiseword for readability)
>
> LISTEN system_messages;
> NOTIFY system_messages MESSAGE logoff;
> NOTIFY request_unlock  MESSAGE 12345; <-- for use with user locks!

Hrm... the userlock module may work for what I'm after, but the module 
is GPL'ed, which is something I don't want to rely on.  I wanted to 
have a backend process essentially act as a long running client that 
would act on notify messages to dispatch work.  I was hoping to 
accomplish something like, "LISTEN REGISTER event_name; LISTEN * BLOCK 
WITH TIMEOUT = 30;" which would only listen to events that you've 
registered to listen to, but would only deliver messages when you 
explicitly were going to block waiting for message delivery (ie, LISTEN 
BLOCK).  I'll settle for getting just message passing via NOTIFY/LISTEN 
to work and will revisit extending things further once I have this bit 
done.  -sc

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Sean Chittenden