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any LISTEN command. This is more important than it used to be because DISCARD ALL invokes UNLISTEN. Connection-pooled applications making heavy use of DISCARD ALL were seeing significant contention for pg_listener, as reported by Matteo Beccati. It seems unlikely that clients using LISTEN would use pooled connections, so this simple tweak seems sufficient, especially since the pg_listener implementation is slated to go away soon anyway. Back-patch to 8.3, where DISCARD ALL was introduced.
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