Greg Sabino Mullane <greg at endpoint.com> writes:
>> There were substantial changes in 8.4 to the implementation of
>> pg_listener, to change from on-table storage to an in-memory handling
>> that would fairly much break the whole listener loop.
>
> Eh? What futuristic branch are you looking at? :) The pg_listener
> changes by Andrew did not make it into 8.4: it uses the pg_listener
> table same as previous versions. A shame, as myself (and Bucardo) were
> really looking forward to using payload messages and not having to cron
> constant pg_listener vacuuming!

Oh, that's something of a surprise.

I had taken "must remove use of pg_listener table" as a takeaway from
the 2008 PgCon, because that was to be going into 8.4.

OK, so maybe reworking 1.2.x for 8.4 isn't quite so scary a quantity
of work...
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