# notify.py - example of getting notifies # # Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Federico Di Gregorio # # psycopg2 is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it # under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published # by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # psycopg2 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT # ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public # License for more details. ## put in DSN your DSN string DSN = 'dbname=test' ## don't modify anything below tis line (except for experimenting) import sys import psycopg2 import select if len(sys.argv) > 1: DSN = sys.argv[1] print "Opening connection using dns:", DSN conn = psycopg2.connect(DSN) print "Encoding for this connection is", conn.encoding conn.set_isolation_level(0) curs = conn.cursor() curs.execute("listen test") print "Waiting for 'NOTIFY test'" while 1: if select.select([curs],[],[],5)==([],[],[]): print "Timeout" else: if not curs.poll(): print "Got NOTIFY: %s" % str(curs.connection.notifies.pop())