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Listen to Database Changes Through the Postgres WAL

https://peterullrich.com/listen-to-database-changes-through-the-postgres-wal
35•pjullrich•5d ago

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morshu9001•57m ago
This is cool, but also, why is pg_notify designed with such a contentious queue?
hbarka•45m ago
I remember decades ago working in something similar in SQL Server called transactional log shipping. It worked on the same principle as write-ahead to another server and was an ETL method for incremental change capture to a data warehouse.

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Listen to Database Changes Through the Postgres WAL

https://peterullrich.com/listen-to-database-changes-through-the-postgres-wal
35•pjullrich•5d ago•2 comments

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