# notify.py - example of getting notifies # # Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Federico Di Gregorio # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the # Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later # version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTIBILITY # or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 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 curs.isready(): print "Got NOTIFY: %s" % str(curs.connection.notifies.pop())