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 I'm sure it's a bit out of date by now, but it's a pretty cool little trick.
