2 Articles tagged “NOTIFY”

PostgreSQL is a relational database management system. It’s even the world’s most advanced open source one of them. As such, as its core, Postgres solves concurrent access to a set of data and maintains consistency while allowing concurrent operations.

In the PostgreSQL Concurrency series of articles here we did see several aspects of how to handle concurrent use cases of your application design with PostgreSQL. The main thing to remember is that a Database Management System first task is to handle concurrency access to the data for you.

This article fits in the PostgreSQL Concurrency series, where we installed a tweeter like application schema and had all the characters from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream tweet their own lines in our database in PostgreSQL Concurrency: Data Modification Language.

A previous article in the series covered how to manage concurrent retweets in an efficient way: Computing and Caching, where we learn how to maintain a cache right in your PostgreSQL database, thanks for materialized views.

Today’s article shows how to maintain an external cache in another application layer. In this article we are going to maintain an in-memory cache in a Golang service, using PostgreSQL LISTEN and NOTIFY features.