Paul Taylor, 04.08.2009 15:48:
> Thats a shame, I wanted to write junit test for a java program that
> queried a database, requiring a full database to be available for unit
> tests is not really an environment I want to have.
Well if you want to test the database, you will need a full database.
But you can easily setup and start a Postgres server through a batch file/shell script.
I have a small batch file that simply uses the binary ZIP distribution to run initdb and create the initial databases. We are using this to bundle Postgres e.g. with a Tomcat web application.
You don't really need to run an installer and/or create registry entries (for windows). This would then resemble more the Derby network server setup.
Thomas