> This may be too simplistic an answer, but can't you just have the function > return a text string and return the message you want to deliver back to the > client? Thanks for your reply. However, this won't work because the INFO messages are not the result or the function. They are a notification about the procedure's progress (which is running for hours in the worst case). And there are many different of them, indicating what's going on. Andre ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly