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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2010-02-17 00:57:06 +0000
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2010-02-17 00:57:06 +0000
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Tweak description of payload parameter.
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/notify.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/notify.sgml
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/notify.sgml,v 1.32 2010/02/16 22:34:43 tgl Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/notify.sgml,v 1.33 2010/02/17 00:57:06 tgl Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -139,8 +139,8 @@ NOTIFY <replaceable class="PARAMETER">channel</replaceable> [ , <replaceable cla
<listitem>
<para>
The <quote>payload</> string to be communicated along with the
- notification. This string must be shorter than 8000 bytes, and
- is treated as text.
+ notification. This must be specified as a simple string literal.
+ In the default configuration it must be shorter than 8000 bytes.
(If binary data or large amounts of information need to be communicated,
it's best to put it in a database table and send the key of the record.)
</para>