I would like to write a trigger or function that spawns a forked process so that the transaction is considered 'complete' to the client, but continues to perform more work. I've been looking for examples to steal^H^H^H^H^H learn from but have only found someone asking pretty much the same question: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2002-12/msg01187.php Has anyone done anything like this? Cheers, Chris -- Christopher Murtagh Enterprise Systems Administrator ISR / Web Service Group McGill University Montreal, Quebec Canada Tel.: (514) 398-3122 Fax: (514) 398-2017 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx