I never tried it, but postgre has some kind of event mechanism:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/sql-listen.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/sql-notify.html

John/Sean whatever


--- In Firebird-Java@yahoogroups.com, "Roman Rokytskyy"
<rrokytskyy@a...> wrote:

> > ¿Is that included in JDBC or is it a FB extension?
>
> FB extension. Events are patented technology, patent is owned by

Borland

> (which acquired it with acquisition of Aston Tate, which bought

InterBase

> Corp. 5 years before) and as far as I know, no other database has

licensed

> it so far. FB inherited patent rights together with the source code.
>
> Roman