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Postgres TRIGGER to call NOTIFY with a JSON payload

This TRIGGER function calls PosgreSQL's NOTIFY command with a JSON payload. You can listen for these calls and then send the JSON payload to a message queue (like AMQP/RabbitMQ) or trigger other actions.

Create the trigger with notify_trigger.sql.

When declaring the trigger, supply the column names you want the JSON payload to contain as arguments to the function (see create_triggers.sql)

The payload returns a JSON object:

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Kartones / postgres-cheatsheet.md
Last active May 16, 2024 12:40
PostgreSQL command line cheatsheet

PSQL

Magic words:

psql -U postgres

Some interesting flags (to see all, use -h or --help depending on your psql version):

  • -E: will describe the underlaying queries of the \ commands (cool for learning!)
  • -l: psql will list all databases and then exit (useful if the user you connect with doesn't has a default database, like at AWS RDS)