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One nice thing about `NOTIFY` is that the system is very fast and scales to many `LISTEN`ers that can all get notifications with very little latency. I.e., it's a C10K system.

Because there are no access controls on who can NOTIFY to what channel, you can't rely on the payload, so you really do have to look at a work queue. But if it's just one user, and all you're trying to do is broadcast date fast, then NOTIFY works great.




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