Re: pg_listening_channels()

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 6:13 PM
> To: Igor Neyman
> Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] pg_listening_channels()
>
> Igor Neyman <ineyman@perceptron.com> writes:
> > With PG 9.0 changes I lost ability to check if anyone is interested
> in the NOTIFY signal and payload I'm about to send.
> > Seems like this change was not thought through completely.
>
> [ shrug... ] It was debated extensively and the advantages of the new
> implementation were deemed to outweigh the disadvantages.
>
>             regards, tom lane

Tom,

Are you saying that these two features: attached payload and being able to find which channels are being listened to -
areincompatible?  That they cannot coexist? 

Regards,
Igor Neyman