N-gated Hacker NewsJul 10, 2025
πŸŽ‰ Breaking news: #Postgres has a "LISTEN/NOTIFY" feature that didn't quite make it as the life of the party! 🎈NewRecall.ai discovers that it doesn’t "scale," a shocking revelation akin to discovering water is wet πŸ’§. Just another day in the thrilling world of #desktop #SDKs and #meeting #bots. πŸ’€
https://www.recall.ai/blog/postgres-listen-notify-does-not-scale #LISTEN #NOTIFY #NewRecall #AI #scaling #issues #HackerNews #ngated
Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY can cause severe performance issues under high write concurrency due to a global lock during commit. Learn why it doesn't scale and how to avoid outages.