# Supabase — Realtime: Broadcast from Database

- Company: Supabase (supabase.com)
- Announced: 2025-04-02T07:00:01+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://supabase.com/blog/realtime-broadcast-from-database
- Record: https://forck.live/items/21364-realtime-broadcast-from-database
- Subject: Supabase

Supabase added Broadcast from Database, a new Realtime feature that lets developers send database changes to clients using SQL triggers and functions. It offers lower latency, selective column payloads, and the ability to target specific actions (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, TRUNCATE) compared to the existing Postgres Changes polling method.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://supabase.com/blog/realtime-broadcast-from-database:

> Broadcast from Database sets up a replication slot against a publication created for the realtime.messages table. This lets Realtime listen for Write Ahead Log (WAL) changes whenever new rows are inserted.

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