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diff --git a/databases/py-pgnotify/DESCR b/databases/py-pgnotify/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..a354adc01bc --- /dev/null +++ b/databases/py-pgnotify/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +pgnotify is a PostgreSQL client-side asynchronous notification handler for +Python and PyGreSQL. + +Typically, asynchronous notification is used to communicate the message "I +changed this table, take a look at it to see what's new" from one PostgreSQL +client to other interested PostgreSQL clients. + +A useful programming technique is to generate asynchronous notification in a +rule that is triggered by table updates; this way, notification happens +automatically when the table is changed and the application programmer can't +accidentally forget to do it. + +At present, pgnotify works with PyGreSQL only. It should work with PoPy and +psycopg when those modules provide Pythonic interfaces to additional necessary +PostgreSQL client-side functions, as described in the README. |