On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:25:18AM +0100, Andy Shellam wrote: > You would need to write your own installation script that would: > a) create the temporary data directory > b) install Postgres with all default options > c) modify the pg_hba.conf file to allow localhost trust access (ie. No > password) - and restart Postgres > d) load the dump of your database into Postgres > e) start your demo and wait for it to exit > f) when demo has exited, stop and uninstall Postgres > g) remove data directory > > It depends how the MSI installer for Postgres will handle the "silent > install" option, but you could use NSIS to do most if not all of this > (http://nsis.sourceforge.net.) And what happens if the user running this is an admin on the box? PostgreSQL will refuse to start. Though, there is a patch floating around that changes that, should you wish to build your own version... -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
