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 Re: Standalone Postgres On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 03:01, Andy Shellam wrote: > > Hello! > > > > Is it possible to have a CD with database and postgres binaries > > (win32), which can be directly run (without any installation) ? Or if it > > is impossible to be run from read-only media, to have it as > > self-extracting archive, which can be run from any user account ? > > The goal is to have some demonstration CD with some viewer, database and > > postgres engine, which can be easily run by any windows user without > > installation. > > > > best regards > > Jarek > > > You won't be able to run it all off CD no, as Postgres requires > log/transaction files etc to be written to. It also requires a service > user/data directory so it would have to be installed. > > If you don't require the functionality etc of Postgres (and haven't > developed your solution yet) you might be better off looking at something > like SQLlite, which uses flat-files. Actually there is a live pg cd distro out there somewhere. I've got a copy of it I can reseed the torrent if anyone wants it. I'm sure it's a bit out of date by now, but it's a pretty cool little trick. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly      |
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| Re: Standalone Postgres You might check out Knoppix. If your app will run on Linux you could create a full bootable Knoppix CD with everything installed - then they can play around all they want and just reboot to reset everything. I am not sure if there is a Knoppix distro that can run within Windows. I do video demos. I know that doesn't allow the user to play but you can really show off the tool in a controlled manner. Check Instant Demo at http://www.instant-demo.com/ - I bought it recently and love it. It even makes Flash versions so you can put them up on your web site. -Aaron On 6/7/06, Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 03:01, Andy Shellam wrote: > > > > > Hello! > > > > > > Is it possible to have a CD with database and postgres binaries > > > (win32), which can be directly run (without any installation) ? Or if > it > > > is impossible to be run from read-only media, to have it as > > > self-extracting archive, which can be run from any user account ? > > > The goal is to have some demonstration CD with some viewer, database > and > > > postgres engine, which can be easily run by any windows user without > > > installation. > > > > > > best regards > > > Jarek > > > > > You won't be able to run it all off CD no, as Postgres requires > > log/transaction files etc to be written to. It also requires a service > > user/data directory so it would have to be installed. > > > > If you don't require the functionality etc of Postgres (and haven't > > developed your solution yet) you might be better off looking at > something > > like SQLlite, which uses flat-files. > > Actually there is a live pg cd distro out there somewhere. I've got a > copy of it I can reseed the torrent if anyone wants it. > > I'm sure it's a bit out of date by now, but it's a pretty cool little > trick. |
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