Athletic Awards Database LISTEN/NOTIFY Policy | Reconcile Display Updates After Listener Gaps
An athletic awards database LISTEN/NOTIFY policy defines how the software components that drive recognition displays treat PostgreSQL notifications: as a lightweight wake-up signal that prompts a re-read of the authoritative award table, never as a durable delivery channel that guarantees every change arrives. When a listener disconnects — because of a network restart, an application crash, or a routine maintenance window — every NOTIFY sent during that gap is gone. The display process has no automatic way to know it missed anything. A policy that reconciles against the database rather than trusting notification count prevents stale records from appearing on hall-of-fame kiosks, lobby honor walls, and championship displays long after the underlying data has changed.
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