On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Dan Kortschak
<dan(dot)kortschak(at)adelaide(dot)edu(dot)au> wrote:
> The automated runs call each script as part of a PBS torque
> script (essentially a sh script calls each in turn).
>
Sounds more like it calls them in parallel, else your populate script
would have finished before your query script ran assuming they run in
the right order.