> > a way to enable a function to commit a unit of work that > > does not affect the caller's transaction. > you can establish an independent connection within a function in, say, > PL/Perl or PL/Python. Okay, multiple connections seems to be my best shot. However, I would like standard developers to be able to stay in PL/pgSQL and SQL. If each of our anonymous transactions needs to be coded in PL/Perl then people are not as happy. (Silly people.) So, can I write some dirty little utility functions (in PL/Perl, C, whatever) that a PL/pgSQL caller use to somehow switch connections? The way our apps are currently structured I'm picturing that each app's logical connection is actually two physical connections: the main thread of control happens on one connection, and autonomous transactions happen on the other connection. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)