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Diffstat (limited to 'src/man')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/man/listen.l | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/man/notify.l | 11 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/src/man/listen.l b/src/man/listen.l index d18d3fdd7f..49801408f7 100644 --- a/src/man/listen.l +++ b/src/man/listen.l @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ .\" This is -*-nroff-*- .\" XXX standard disclaimer belongs here.... -.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/man/Attic/listen.l,v 1.6 1998/06/24 13:21:27 momjian Exp $ +.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/man/Attic/listen.l,v 1.7 1998/07/09 03:29:09 scrappy Exp $ .TH "LISTEN" SQL 03/12/94 PostgreSQL PostgreSQL .SH NAME listen - listen for notification on a relation @@ -21,9 +21,7 @@ is cleared. .PP This event notification is performed through the Libpq protocol and frontend application interface. The application program -must explicitly poll a Libpq global variable, -.IR PQAsyncNotifyWaiting , -and call the routine +must call the routine .IR PQnotifies in order to find out the name of the class to which a given notification corresponds. If this code is not included in diff --git a/src/man/notify.l b/src/man/notify.l index 50f44b442e..26b3de6f6f 100644 --- a/src/man/notify.l +++ b/src/man/notify.l @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ .\" This is -*-nroff-*- .\" XXX standard disclaimer belongs here.... -.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/man/Attic/notify.l,v 1.4 1998/06/24 13:21:27 momjian Exp $ +.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/man/Attic/notify.l,v 1.5 1998/07/09 03:29:11 scrappy Exp $ .TH "NOTIFY" SQL 11/05/95 PostgreSQL PostgreSQL .SH NAME notify - signal all frontends and backends listening on a class @@ -32,11 +32,14 @@ does is indicate that some backend wishes its peers to examine .IR class_name in some application-specific way. .PP +In fact, +.IR class_name +need not be the name of an SQL class at all. It is best thought of +as a condition name that the application programmer selects. +.PP This event notification is performed through the Libpq protocol and frontend application interface. The application program -must explicitly poll a Libpq global variable, -.IR PQAsyncNotifyWaiting , -and call the routine +must call the routine .IR PQnotifies in order to find out the name of the class to which a given notification corresponds. If this code is not included in |