Re: how to ensure a client waits for a previous transaction to finish?

Dan Kortschak wrote:
> Hi, this is a bit of a noob question.
>
> I am using PGSql to perform some large analyses, with the clients being
> a sequentially run set of perl scripts (one to set up and populate
> tables and then down stream scripts to query the database for the
> results).
> ....

when you say 'a series of perl scripts', do you mean separate perl
files, each run as their own process?   how are you invoking them?