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Realtime Channels

You can uniquely reference a channel by its topic you define when you initialize your Supabase Realtime client. Everyone connected to the same Channel topic will receive the same messages.

Clients can send and receive messages bi-directionally over a Channel. The Realtime backend can also push messages to all clients connected to the same Channel.

A single client can receive change records from Postgres, Broadcast messages from other clients and Presence updates all over the same Channel.

Channels are implemented over Phoenix Channels which uses Phoenix.PubSub with the default Phoenix.PubSub.PG2 adapter.

The PG2 adapter utilizes Erlang process groups to implement the PubSub model where a publisher can send messages to many subscribers.

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