Michael, > Still, it seems like a convenient way to maintain cache coherency, > assuming that your application doesn't already have a clean way to do > that. Precisely. The big problem with memory caching is the cache getting out of sync with the database. Updating the cache through database triggers helps ameliorate that. However, our inability to pass messages with NOTIFY somewhat limits the the utility of this solution Sean wants "on commit triggers", but there's some major issues to work out with that. Passing messages with NOTIFY would be easier and almost as good. -- --Josh Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco