Re: Background processes inside the database.

tophertheread@netscape.net (Topher TheRead) wrote in message news:<719e0031.0310080819.149b63ef@posting.google.com>... > "Jack Parker" <vze2qjg5@verizon.net> dashed out a message saying: > > You could always go for an intermediate step. Set a flag in a table, have > > an OS process (cron scheduled or whatnot) check that table to see if it > > should spawn the process you really want to run. > > Thanks, Jack, and sorry for the delay responding. > > For long and tedious reasons, not worth divulging, we are trying to > eliminate the use of a daemon or polling process. I was hoping that > 9.4 would make it unneccessary. Why don't create a stored procedure and make a system call which starts a background process? create procedure system_call ()... system ("/mypath/set_environment_script_and_start_whatever &"); ... end procedure;