delivering database stand-alone

hi all,

i am planning to build a database (a dictionary in fact) that i will
eventually want to distribute on a cd (or downloadable iso). what i would
like to know is if this is technically possible with postgresql. and how
exactly would it be done? would i have to make postgresql run off the cd,
or should it first be installed to the hard disk? (the latter would be
problematic on linux, given the many different distros and their different
package management systems...) how would i deal with systems that already
have a postgreql server or (more difficult perhaps) a different database
server running?

or should i not make use of postgresql (or any database server) at all for
the cd? after all, the data in the database is static, users will not have
to modify it, just look it up.

thanks for any comments and suggestions.

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Joost Kremers
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