Yes, they are separate perl files (I'm thinking that perhaps this wasn't the best way to do it now, but for the moment I'm going to have to stick with it). In the case of the manual testing it's jus a matter of command line calls. The automated runs call each script as part of a PBS torque script (essentially a sh script calls each in turn). cheers On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 13:16 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > when you say 'a series of perl scripts', do you mean separate perl > files, each run as their own process? how are you invoking them? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general