Re: Running Postgres on CD - With Win32

Hi Peter!<br /><br /> Of course I don't want to just include a client. For that i would just use Npgsql and that's it.
AndI wouldn't need a CD/DVD at all. No, I want to export some of the data stored in the (linux-)backend onto the DVD
togetherwith a read-only-version of the client-app. And that application is a .NET-(Windows-)app. That would spare me
theefford to create two different data-access-methods as I could just change the connection-string and would be
through...Perfect solution, iff I can get postgres to run directly from that data-carrying DVD. And I don't want to
installpostgres on any machine that DVD is run on. Most likely users won't have admin-rights or even priviledged
user-rightswhen they use the created DVD.<br /><br /><br /> ...Dennis<br /><br /> Peter Childs schrieb: <blockquote
cite="mida2de01dd0512310627v2eabae2m@mail.gmail.com"type="cite">If all you want is a client you should just be able to
writeit and it will connect to the server and work. The client does not need to write just the server. <br /><br />
PeterChilds<br /><br /><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 29/12/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dennis Wagner</b> <<a
href="mailto:dennis@dennis-wagner.info">dennis@dennis-wagner.info</a>>wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote"
style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi everybody!<br /><br
/>I was using Postgres for quite some time now without any problems. Now<br /> I'm facing some new challenge: Create a
Read-OnlyClient out of a given<br /> Application and put it on CD/DVD. As the Application uses a <br /> PostgreSQL-DB
(runningon a FreeBSD-Server) I would like to at least<br /> keep the DB-Interface and use Postgres. The client-app,
unfortunatly,is<br /> written for the .NET-Platform and doesn't run under mono (yet). So the <br /> CD would need to be
rununder Windows for the moment. I found some<br /> Threads discussion using a Knoppix-like approach to get Postgres
running<br/> on a read-only medium but they were all concentrationg on linux. As far <br /> as I understand there is no
wayof turning WAL completely off (which<br /> would be ok for a CD-version as false writes cannot occur und thus<br />
cannotdestroy the db-content). So then there are two possibilities:<br /> Send all writes to log-files to nirvana (like
thegood old BOFH used to <br /> do) or into a memdrive. Has anybody accomplished the task to run<br /> PostgreSQL from
CD(even on Linux) and is willing to contribute some of<br /> his/her experiences?<br /> Any help is greatly
appreciated.<br/><br /><br /> ...Dennis <br /><br /><br /> ---------------------------(end of
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