Jeff Bowden <jlb@houseofdistraction.com> writes:
> Still, the main problem I, and I suspect others, would like to solve is
> installation/configuration. For my app I don't want the user to have to
> understand anything about how keeping data in a shared
> system-administered database is different from keeping data in local
> files. Everything should "just work".
Sure, but most of the existing packagings of PG already try to make this
automatic (at least Lamar's RPMs and Oliver's Debian package do). No
doubt further work could be invested to make it even smoother, but that
doesn't mean we need a client-started database.
> So kill -9 on postmaster can lead to database corruption? What happens
> in a power failure?
See my last response to Rick Gigger. kill -9 is a lot different from a
power failure.
regards, tom lane