On the same connection with the NOTIFY-er? I probably misunderstand somethings. Can you point to the part in the documentation that states this? That would defe

On the same connection with the NOTIFY-er? I probably misunderstand somethings. Can you point to the part in the documentation that states this? That would defeat the purpose of it entirely. Edit: In fact the second sentence in the documentation is "[...] NOTIFY channel is invoked, either by this session or another one connected to the same database, all the sessions currently listening on that notification channel are notified, and each will in turn notify its connected client application." [0] [0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/sql-listen.html https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/sql-listen.html