> AFAIK PostgreSQL has no such built-in functionality Postgres actually has basic pubsub via "LISTEN" and "NOTIFY". I was planning on trying out rethinkdb as a

> AFAIK PostgreSQL has no such built-in functionality Postgres actually has basic pubsub via "LISTEN" and "NOTIFY". I was planning on trying out rethinkdb as a real-time database but found that approach instead described in this blog post: http://blog.sagemath.com/2017/02/09/rethinkdb-vs-postgres.html http://blog.sagemath.com/2017/02/09/rethinkdb-vs-postgres.ht... which also had a huge comment thread with related links(800+ upvotes): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13610146 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13610146