background triggers?

[Sim Zacks <sim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is there any way to write a statement trigger that runs in the 
background? In my testing, when I have an After Insert For Each 
Statement trigger, the function call does not end until the trigger is 
finished processing.

What I would like to do, and please let me know if there is a better way 
to do this, is to have an after event statement trigger run in a 
separate process so the function call ends when it ends and the 
statement trigger gets executed on its own time.

The use that I have for this at the moment, and I can think of many 
other uses, is that I want to populate a statistics table each time that 
a table is updated. But the code to populate the table takes 10 seconds 
to run. I don't want the user to have to wait 10 seconds to add a record.