Re: Embedding postgresql in an application

From: George Hartzell <hartzell(at)alerce(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, sfpug(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Embedding postgresql in an application
Date: 2013-03-30 16:53:30
Message-ID: 20823.6282.407537.385020@gargle.gargle.HOWL
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Joshua D. Drake writes:
>
> On 03/30/2013 07:38 AM, David Fetter wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 04:20:46PM -0700, Sam Talebbeik wrote:
> >> Folks, I need to manually install postgresql on Ubuntu. I can not do
> >> apt-get install.
> >
> > Consider embedding the entire application in a virtual machine running
> > your choice of OS, DB version, etc. You will be able to control that
> > and will save your end users and yourself a *lot* of grief.
>
> +1 and if you do it correctly, you can support multiple VM types so the
> user can use whichever one they already have installed (KVM, VirtualBox,
> VMWare).

Hi JD,

Do you have any pointers/references about "doing it [VM images] correctly"?

Thanks,

g.

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