On 10/3/2005 12:12 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
Samik Raychaudhuri <samik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
... What I wanted is a no-trace (or minimal trace), no-admin required
kind of installation (I won't be able to create a non-admin user in the
comp), which, when I am done, I can just delete the installation
directory and will be clear.
Postgres isn't really designed to be the sort of "embedded" database
that you seem to be after. You should look at other alternatives.
(Berkeley DB is one possibility that's written by friends of ours ;-))
In particular, you'll get zero sympathy here for any request to let the
database run as an admin-level user. The IPC communication structure we
use does not allow restricting requests to just one program, and hence
ignoring security issues is simply not a sane thing to do.
regards, tom lane
Thanks for replying Tom. I am not planning to run the DB as admin-level,
just as a normal user. I am actually ready to compromise some security
(it will run inside a local n/w, won't be exposed to internet, there are
firewall inplace etc.) against the learning curve for a new database.
Don't want to leave my favorite db I guess :-)
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