Unsupported versions: 7.3 / 7.2 / 7.1

Historical version. PostgreSQL 7.2 has reached end of support. See the current manual.

getnotify

Name

getnotify -- gets the last notify from the server

Synopsis

getnotify()

Parameters

none

Return Type

tuple, None: Last notify from server

Exceptions

TypeError: Too many (any) arguments.
pg.error: Invalid connection.

Description

getnotify() method tries to get a notify from the server (from the SQL statement NOTIFY). If the server returns no notify, the methods returns None. Otherwise, it returns a tuple (couple) (relname, pid), where relname is the name of the notify and pid the process id of the connection that triggered the notify. Remember to do a listen query first otherwise getnotify will always return None.

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