--- title: The Notifier Pattern for Applications That Use Postgres description: The post discusses the notifier pattern for applications that use Postgres. It explains how listen/notify works in Postgres and how the notifier pattern can... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-notifier-pattern-for-applications-that-use-postgres-sr0oa3oln twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Notifier Pattern for Applications That Use Postgres | daily.dev og:description: The post discusses the notifier pattern for applications that use Postgres. It explains how listen/notify works in Postgres and how the notifier pattern can... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-notifier-pattern-for-applications-that-use-postgres-sr0oa3oln og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Sr0oa3Oln.png og:image:alt: The Notifier Pattern for Applications That Use Postgres og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Notifier Pattern for Applications That Use Postgres **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 7 min read · 12 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The post discusses the notifier pattern for applications that use Postgres. It explains how listen/notify works in Postgres and how the notifier pattern can optimize its usage by reducing the number of Postgres connections required. 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