# 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 this line (except for experimenting) import sys import select import psycopg2 from psycopg2.extensions import ISOLATION_LEVEL_AUTOCOMMIT if len(sys.argv) > 1: DSN = sys.argv[1] print("Opening connection using dsn:", DSN) conn = psycopg2.connect(DSN) print("Encoding for this connection is", conn.encoding) conn.set_isolation_level(ISOLATION_LEVEL_AUTOCOMMIT) curs = conn.cursor() curs.execute("listen test") print("Waiting for 'NOTIFY test'") while 1: if select.select([conn],[],[],5)==([],[],[]): print("Timeout") else: conn.poll() while conn.notifies: print("Got NOTIFY:", conn.notifies.pop())