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


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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.

Andy

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> owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Jarek
> Sent: 07 June 2006 8:30 am
> To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Subject: [ADMIN] Standalone Postgres
>
> 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
>
>
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