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Karl Wright commented on CONNECTORS-55:
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forcing the user to pick the right/acceptable release of PostgreSQL to install
is error prone and a support headache
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Yup. It is. Problem is that products/versions get security fixes, CVE's,
end-of-life notices, etc. It is beyond the scope of LCF to try and control all
that - we'd be buying a whole new level of support headache, believe me.
> Bundle database server with LCF packaged product
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>
> Key: CONNECTORS-55
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONNECTORS-55
> Project: Lucene Connector Framework
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Framework core
> Reporter: Jack Krupansky
>
> The current requirement that the user install and deploy a PostgreSQL server
> complicates the installation and deployment of LCF for the user. Installation
> and deployment of LCF should be as simple as Solr itself. QuickStart is great
> for the low-end and basic evaluation, but a comparable level of simplified
> installation and deployment is still needed for full-blown, high-end
> environments that need the full performance of a ProstgreSQL-class database
> server. So, PostgreSQL should be bundled with the packaged release of LCF so
> that installation and deployment of LCF will automatically install and deploy
> a subset of the full PostgreSQL distribution that is sufficient for the needs
> of LCF. Starting LCF, with or without the LCF UI, should automatically start
> the database server. Shutting down LCF should also shutdown the database
> server process.
> A typical use case would be for a non-developer who is comfortable with Solr
> and simply wants to crawl documents from, for example, a SharePoint
> repository and feed them into Solr. QuickStart should work well for the low
> end or in the early stages of evaluation, but the user would prefer to
> evaluate "the real thing" with something resembling a production crawl of
> thousands of documents. Such a user might not be a hard-core developer or be
> comfortable fiddling with a lot of software components simply to do one
> conceptually simple operation.
> It should still be possible for the user to supply database server settings
> to override the defaults, but the LCF package should have all of the
> best-practice settings deemed appropriate for use with LCF.
> One downside is that installation and deployment will be platform-specific
> since there are multiple processes and PostgreSQL itself requires a
> platform-specific installation.
> This proposal presumes that PostgreSQL is the best option for the foreseeable
> future, but nothing here is intended to preclude support for other database
> servers in futures releases.
> This proposal should not have any impact on QuickStart packaging or
> deployment.
> Note: This issue is part of Phase 1 of the CONNECTORS-50 umbrella issue.
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