On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 04:17:48PM +0300, Sim Zacks wrote: > On 04/26/2011 03:15 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote: > > >On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:28 AM, Sim Zacks<s...@compulab.co.il> wrote: > >>Asynchronous functions > >> > >>*Problem* > >>Postgresql does not have support for asynchronous function calls. > >Well, there is asynchronous support from the client of course. Thus > >you can set up a asynchronous call back to the database with dblink. > >There is some discussion about formalizing this feature -- you might > >want to read up on autonomous transactions and how they might be used > >to do what you are proposing. > > > >merlin > I am looking for specifically server support and not client support. > Part of the proposal is that if the client goes away, it will still > continue to finish.
This is exactly autonomous transactions. Please read this thread to see how. http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-01/msg00893.php Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
