Re: [ADMIN] Running Postgres on CD - With Win32

[Dennis Wagner]

Hi Peter! Of course I don't want to just include a client. For that i would just use Npgsql and that's it. And I 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 together with a read-only-version of the client-app. And that application is a .NET-(Windows-)app. That would spare me the efford 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 install postgres on any machine that DVD is run on. Most likely users won't have admin-rights or even priviledged user-rights when they use the created DVD. ...Dennis Peter Childs schrieb: If all you want is a client you should just be able to write it and it will connect to the server and work. The client does not need to write just the server. Peter Childs On 29/12/05, Dennis Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everybody! I was using Postgres for quite some time now without any problems. Now I'm facing some new challenge: Create a Read-Only Client out of a given Application and put it on CD/DVD. As the Application uses a PostgreSQL-DB (running on a FreeBSD-Server) I would like to at least keep the DB-Interface and use Postgres. The client-app, unfortunatly, is written for the .NET-Platform and doesn't run under mono (yet). So the CD would need to be run under Windows for the moment. I found some Threads discussion using a Knoppix-like approach to get Postgres running on a read-only medium but they were all concentrationg on linux. As far as I understand there is no way of turning WAL completely off (which would be ok for a CD-version as false writes cannot occur und thus cannot destroy the db-content). So then there are two possibilities: Send all writes to log-files to nirvana (like the good old BOFH used to do) or into a memdrive. Has anybody accomplished the task to run PostgreSQL from CD (even on Linux) and is willing to contribute some of his/her experiences? Any help is greatly appreciated. ...Dennis ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings -- Dennis Wagner SpheronVR AG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hauptstrasse 186 http://www.spheron.com 67714 Waldfischbach-Burgalben Phone +49 63 33 / 27 66 -24 Germany Fax +49 63 33 / 27 66 -11