On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 17:41:02 +0200, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> is it somehow possible to detach trigger, so the calling transaction
> can return immediately, even before the trigger function has
> returned.
No, but see below.
> The only solution I currently know is to fill somethings in a queue
> table by rule and have an external daemon looking at it every second.
> But this doesnt seem very optimal for me.
Take a look at the LISTEN/NOTIFY interfaces in the docs. This will
allow async post-transaction processing. You can set up an ALSO rule
to notify when a particular type of statement has executed against
your target table.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/sql-listen.htmlhttp://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/sql-notify.html
See the bottom of:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/sql-createrule.html
Hope that helps!
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