Bob Henkel escribió: > Have you looked at creating a function in perl and creating a new > connection? Or using a dblink query which can create a new connection? > These two methods work. I have used them to insert to a log table regardless > of the parent transaction being commited or rolled back. That's a different thing, "autonomous transactions". -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support