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How to use Realtime Functionality in Supabase Postgress Database

WELCOME 👋 friends to this new blog post. In this blog post, you will learn how to fetch data or get alerted whenever a row is inserted, updated, and deleted in the supabase Postgres database with the help of a supabase subscription, 😁Pretty easy to setup.

🤔When to use it?

Suppose, I gave you a project of making a real-time chat app with supabase. Then you need to fetch data whenever a new chat is inserted, deleted, or updated.

First, you need to go to the supabase database settings:

**Note: **I have selected my tables, the table settings would be different from yours.

👀Note: The tables which are enabled by clicking the green button will be able to make real-time data fetching.


**on 👆 **can have three 4 types:
  1. INSERT — Listening to the table if any new row is inserted

  2. UPDATE— Listening to table if any row is updated

  3. DELETE— Listening to table if any row is deleted

    • — Listening to the table for all the above changes.

you will get a response something like this:

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