unlisten

Langue: en

Version: 2007-04-20 (openSuse - 09/10/07)

Section: 7 (Divers)

NAME

UNLISTEN - stop listening for a notification

SYNOPSIS


UNLISTEN { name | * }



DESCRIPTION

UNLISTEN is used to remove an existing registration for NOTIFY events. UNLISTEN cancels any existing registration of the current PostgreSQL session as a listener on the notification name. The special wildcard * cancels all listener registrations for the current session.

NOTIFY [notify(7)] contains a more extensive discussion of the use of LISTEN and NOTIFY.

PARAMETERS

name
Name of a notification (any identifier).
*
All current listen registrations for this session are cleared.

NOTES

You may unlisten something you were not listening for; no warning or error will appear.

At the end of each session, UNLISTEN * is automatically executed.

EXAMPLES

To make a registration:


LISTEN virtual;

NOTIFY virtual;

Asynchronous notification "virtual" received from server process with PID 8448.



Once UNLISTEN has been executed, further NOTIFY commands will be ignored:


UNLISTEN virtual;

NOTIFY virtual;

-- no NOTIFY event is received



COMPATIBILITY

There is no UNLISTEN command in the SQL standard.

SEE ALSO

LISTEN [listen(7)], NOTIFY [notify(l)]