Re: A method to asynchronously LISTEN ?

Hello, 
could you pleas advise what is wrong in our testing ? 

We retrieved the git sources, build them. 
Modified the testNotify() as shown below. 
When performing "NOTIFY mynotification" from an SQL client, we do not see the " Notification received" message as expected. 

Thank you. 

Regards, 



Philippe Ebersohl 




From: "Philippe Ebersohl" <[email protected]> 
To: "Dave Cramer" <[email protected]> 
Cc: "David G. Johnston" <[email protected]>, "List" <[email protected]> 
Sent: Thursday, 28 February, 2019 10:52:44 
Subject: Re: A method to asynchronously LISTEN ? 

Hello, 
we retrieved the sources. 





After starting the testNotify() below, we execute from pgadmin : notify mynotification 

But the listener is not notified. 

Did we miss something ? 








public void testNotify() throws SQLException, InterruptedException { 
final AtomicBoolean flag = new AtomicBoolean(false); 
Statement stmt = conn.createStatement(); 
((org.postgresql.PGConnection)conn).addNotificationListener(new org.postgresql.PGNotificationListener() { 
@Override 
public void notification(org.postgresql.PGNotification notification) { 
flag.set(true); 

System.out.println("Notification received"); 



} 
}); 
stmt.executeUpdate("LISTEN mynotification"); 
// stmt.executeUpdate("NOTIFY mynotification"); 

Thread.sleep(30000); 

org.postgresql.PGNotification[] notifications = conn.unwrap(org.postgresql.PGConnection.class).getNotifications(); 
//assertTrue(flag.get()); 
//assertNotNull(notifications); 
//assertEquals(1, notifications.length); 
//assertEquals("mynotification", notifications[0].getName()); 
//long endMillis = System.currentTimeMillis(); 
//long runtime = endMillis - startMillis; 
//assertNull("There have been notifications, although none have been expected.",notifications); 
//assertTrue("We didn't wait long enough! runtime=" + runtime, runtime > 450); 

stmt.close(); 
} 



Regards. 



Philippe Ebersohl 



From: "Dave Cramer" <[email protected]> 
To: "Philippe Ebersohl" <[email protected]> 
Cc: "David G. Johnston" <[email protected]>, "List" <[email protected]> 
Sent: Wednesday, 27 February, 2019 11:53:59 
Subject: Re: A method to asynchronously LISTEN ? 



On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 at 05:47, Philippe Ebersohl < [ mailto:[email protected] | [email protected] ] > wrote: 



Hello, 
I do not think there is a need for something like conn.listenSync(). 
We were just intrigued about the test. 

In fact the current proposition should just work fine and we would like to test it. 
How could we have access to a postgresql-*.jdbc.jar that includes this feature ? 

Regards, 
Philippe 



I just rebased it over the current code [ https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/pull/579 | https://github.com/pgjdbc/pgjdbc/pull/579 ] 
You should be able to build it manually using the commandline instructions to get the pull 

git checkout -b davecramer-notify master 
git pull [ https://github.com/davecramer/pgjdbc.git | https://github.com/davecramer/pgjdbc.git ] notify 

then use maven to build it 


Dave Cramer 

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[ http://www.postgresintl.com/ | www.postgresintl.com ] 



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From: "David G. Johnston" < [ mailto:[email protected] | [email protected] ] > 
To: "Dave Cramer" < [ mailto:[email protected] | [email protected] ] > 
Cc: "Philippe Ebersohl" < [ mailto:[email protected] | [email protected] ] >, "List" < [ mailto:[email protected] | [email protected] ] > 
Sent: Tuesday, 26 February, 2019 22:17:12 
Subject: Re: A method to asynchronously LISTEN ? 

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 12:04 PM Dave Cramer < [ mailto:[email protected] | [email protected] ] > wrote: 

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On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 at 12:29, David G. Johnston < [ mailto:[email protected] | [email protected] ] > wrote: 

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The question being asked is whether executeUpdate method performs synchronous execution of the listener function queue during its execution. 

This after sending the command to the server and the server completing execution of the NOTIFY. This assumes that the server places the notification on the channel for pick-up immediately (which will not be the case within a transaction). 

While the client is, IIRC, synchronous, thus the local order of operations can be controlled, the server is asynchronous and thus this test is exposed to timing issues. Maybe we need something like conn.listenSync() that blocks until a notification payload is received on the connection...? 

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kind of defeats the asynchronous aspect, no ? 

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You'd still want an asynchronous API for people but JavaScript introduced the "async/await" feature for a reason. In this case making it "sync" instead of coding up wait loop seems desirable. That said its quite possible I'm missing some existing feature as I haven't used this API at all. 

David J. 


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