From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>
To: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
Cc: pgsql-sql <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: asynchrous triggers
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 00:07:41 -0400
Message-ID: <20050401040741.GA9898@dcc.uchile.cl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050401035249.GA23298@nibiru.borg.metux.de>
References: <20050401035249.GA23298@nibiru.borg.metux.de>
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 05:52:49AM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> is it possible somehow to make (AFTER) triggers run in their
> own process/thread, so the calling session can return immediately
> and the trigger runs in background ?
Not really, though you could signal an external process to do something
asynchronously using LISTEN/NOTIFY.
That is, unless you write your trigger function in C and it calls
fork(). Not sure if that would actually work though (and you should
forget about accessing the database.)
--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"Estoy de acuerdo contigo en que la verdad absoluta no existe...
El problema es que la mentira sí existe y tu estás mintiendo" (G. Lama)
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