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Postgres does have notifications. And the article mentions this:

> Notifications are not part of the SQL standard and most relational databases do not support them. There are some exceptions, however. For example, PostgreSQL has very decent support for notifications.




OK, thanks for that information.

I scanned the documentation TOC and found no mention of them. I guess I would have thought such a fundamental feature would show up in the TOC but it turns out you have to dig into the SQL documentation to find the NOTIFY and LISTEN statements.

If I had used the search feature on the word "notification" I would have found this but it's not necessarily obvious that they would actually be called that (ie. they could be called events or something else).




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