>It is the only known way to control triggers though it isn't regularly >tested by the developers. I think I've come up with another way.. I posted this recently, but did not get any feedback on it so I'm not sure how dumb it is... It is working really great for me though.... All I did was added an extra column to my table (I called it "batch_process"). Then in the trigger do something like (in whichever function you are calling): IF NEW.batch_update IS NOT NULL AND NEW.batch_update = ''t'' THEN NEW.batch_process := NULL; RETURN NULL; END IF; .. whatever the rest of transaction is Then when doing an insert, just: INSERT INTO table (..., batch_process) VALUES (..., 't') when you want the trigger not to fire... Or an update: UPDATE TABLE table SET ...., batch_process = 't' .... I'm not sure sure how to make it work on a function called from a delete trigger though.. ;-( - Greg ---------------------------(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