Re: delivering database stand-alone

From: Jacob Hanson <jacobhanson(at)firsthealth(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: delivering database stand-alone
Date: 2003-09-02 16:21:12
Message-ID: 3mg9lvs9sdj12c3jmboqviv69s3g0af4l2@4ax.com
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You should check out Firebird (firebirdsql.sourceforge.net) I believe
your can set databases to be read-only and when embedding, Firebird is
a single DLL.

Jacob

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 15:42:32 -0400, Christopher Browne
<cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> wrote:
>Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing whenjoostkremers(at)fastmail(dot)fm (Joost Kremers)wrote:
>> 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?

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