Re: postgresql live-cd

I wish i had known this all, i would have never gotten in to this. I
put one of my employees on this, it has cost me money. Apparently,
there was no need for our effort afterall, so I basically wasted
money. Bit disappointed here. What a complete waste of time this has
been.

Robert Bernier wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I'm announcing that I'm on the tailend of completing my own implementation of pg_live. It's based on Ubuntu so it has full installation capabilities if the user wants it.
>
> The full version weighs in around 720mb but that's going to drop after I have removed the language packages that aren't required in an English only environment.
>
> There's a lot of documentation that I've added in added to the standard reference documentation. All of which is accesible through its own http webserver.
>
> Here's an excerpt of the iso's README file:
>
> ===============================
> FEATURES
> Pg_live is a sophisticated environment that runs a number of services on bootup and includes:
>
> - Apache, which is enabled with PHP
> - SSH server thus allowing secure logins from other workstations that are on the same network
> - PostgreSQL, version 8.1.4
> - pgpool, the PostgreSQL connection pool daemon
>
> The PostgreSQL server has been preconfigured with the following procedural languages:
> plpgsql
> plr
> plperl
> plperlu
> plpythonu
> pltcl
> pltclu
> plphp
> plphpu
>
> The following interpretative programing languages are included:
> perl
> python
> R
> tcl
> PHP
>
> OTHER
> - Postgresql contributions
> - SLONY (with lots of example scripts)
>
> POSTGRESQL CLIENTS AND UTILITIES
> pgadmin3
> phppgadmin
> psql
>
> The console based web-browser, ELINKS, is ideal when running in "console only" mode. Thus permitting access to otherwise inaccesible GUI features such as pg_live's Apache PHP client, phppgadmin, and of course the included reference documentation.
>
> HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
> - GUI, 160MB RAM (default boot, all services running)
> - GUI, 125MB RAM (runlevel 4, no services running)
> - CONSOLE, 55MB RAM (single user mode, runlevel 1, no services running)
> - CONSOLE, 90MB RAM (runlevel 3, all services running)
>
>
>
> On Wednesday 05 July 2006 11:28, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> On Wednesday 05 July 2006 08:14, Koen Martens wrote:
>>> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>>> On Wednesday 05 July 2006 06:54, Stephen Slezak wrote:
>>>>> How much y'all need?
>>>> I will be able to let you know this week.
>>> We'll probably have a last version of the CD ready today, although
>>> it is lacking a bit into the example databases department. It has
>>> procedural languages, but you need to enable them when you create a
>>> database. There is currently no example database using procedural
>>> languages on the iso.
>> Why not add the languages to template1 so that they are created
>> automatically?
>>
>>> Joshua, when do you need the master image?
>> No later then Friday morning PST.
>>
>>> Gr,
>>>
>>> Koen
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>

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