Re: running PostGres without installing it

On 8/5/06, jesus martinez <jesus_martinez1967(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)ar> wrote:
>
>
> i want to distribute a copy of PostGres to my clients.
> they really dont know anything about installing
> programs or
> configurating remote RDBMS sql-servers,
> so i dont want to give them the
> "official-PostGres-installer.exe"
> but my own installer.exe (win32)

I would love to know this too. Is there a way to just copy the PostgreSQL
files to the hard drive without the installer, load up the database and
start and stop it as an application rather than a service? A silent
installer may solve the problem but what if you have 2 applications that
both have installers and want to install PostgreSQL? The silent installer
would need to be able to detect that it is already installed (which I think
it already does) and then skip the PostgreSQL install without bugging the
user (not sure it would do that).

For years I have struggled with desktop applications and data
access/storage. Databases are very powerful tools but, other than MS
Access, I have not seen any that are easily distributable bundled with a
desktop application. Not having a personal database to bundle with my
applications has proven to be a "one hand tied behind my back" situation.

Any ideas you guys have would be deeply appreciated.

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Aaron Bono
Aranya Software Technologies, Inc.
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