I have a situation where I wish to run queries and perhaps do some updating while a session is still active and has flushed the records to the database but has not yet committed the current transaction. As you are not supposed to use the current session in the PostFlush Interceptor phase, if I wish to do something at this point, would I need to open a second session to do my stuff?

Has anyone done this and is there anything I need to bear in mind?