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listen Listen for notification on a relation
listen relation_name
listen is used to register the current backend as a listener on the relation relation_name. When the command notify relation_name is called either from within a rule or at the query level, the frontends corresponding to the listening backends are notified.
retrieve(commands), notify(commands), definerule(commands), libpq.