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Wow, TIL that LISTEN/NOTIFY in Postgres requires a global lock when committing transactions issuing a NOTIFY. Consider listening to the WAL via logical replication as an alternative with no impact on the write path. www.recall.ai/blog/postgre...

Chris

@chris.blue

12 July 2025

You’re sure spending a lot of time with PG. What are you up to? 🧐

Gunnar Morling

@gunnarmorling.dev

Haha, good question. Having some new ideas around CDC for Postgres. For a while I thought there's no more juice to squeeze, but I think I'm coming around.

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