rule/notify bug?

Started by Brett McCormickSover 27 years ago2 messages
#1Brett McCormickS
brett@abraxas.scene.com

create rule radius1 as on update to user where (current.usrppp <> new.usrppp) do notify radius;

update user set usrname = 'Brett McCormick' where usrid = 'brett';
NOTIFY

the notification comes through on the radius relation (which, interestingly, doesn't exist)

linux 2.0.33, postgresql 6.3.2..
should I be filling out a bug report? ;)
or just using gdb

creating the table & dropping and recreating the rule has no effect

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Brett McCormickS (#1)
Re: [HACKERS] rule/notify bug?

Brett McCormickS <brett@abraxas.scene.com> writes:

create rule radius1 as on update to user where (current.usrppp <> new.usrppp) do notify radius;

update user set usrname = 'Brett McCormick' where usrid = 'brett';
NOTIFY

the notification comes through on the radius relation
(which, interestingly, doesn't exist)

Yup, that's what you told it to do: "notify radius". Listen/notify
names are really arbitrary identifiers, not relation names. This
is a good thing: you can signal conditions that aren't tightly
tied to a single table.

should I be filling out a bug report? ;)

It's not a bug, it's a feature ;-)

The listen/notify documentation could be clearer about this, though.
Maybe it's a documentation bug.

regards, tom lane