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It's great, unless you are using JDBC.

That's still not as great as a second async connection on a notification thread. still lot's of work to make it useful.

yeah, the current/official JDBC driver does not support async listen/notify so you have to do polling.

note, the following jdbc driver can do async listen/notify: http://impossibl.github.io/pgjdbc-ng/