Re: embedded/"serverless" (Re: serverless postgresql)

From: "Rick Gigger" <rick(at)alpinenetworking(dot)com>
To: "Keith C(dot) Perry" <netadmin(at)vcsn(dot)com>
Cc: "Chris Travers" <chris(at)travelamericas(dot)com>, "David Garamond" <lists(at)zara(dot)6(dot)isreserved(dot)com>, "Jeff Bowden" <jlb(at)houseofdistraction(dot)com>, "pgsql-general" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: embedded/"serverless" (Re: serverless postgresql)
Date: 2004-01-22 18:26:03
Message-ID: 006c01c3e115$32978720$0700a8c0@trogdor
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> I'm not sure what OS you're using (I might have missed it in the thread)
but
> I've never even thought about an embedded database because PG runs very
nice on
> my laptop (P III - 850Mhz but I did NOT it new). Now, I'm running Linux
so
> maybe that is the difference. In fact, I'm found it to be invaluable to
take it
> to a client meeting and show not only the high level application gloss but
I can
> also show the guts of a application/web site.

If it were just my laptop that would be fine. But I just can't really
install a full on database server (nor would I feel comfortable doing so) on
every machine that I would need it on.

> Now I do understand the sync'ning issue with the database and I haven't
had that
> issue yet but since you'd have two Pg server's, I would think this issue
could
> be handled one of the replication project that is available or by
something you
> custom build (like a perl script that connects to both systems and syncs
by
> checking for missing pkey's in both systems).

This is not an issue for postgres at this point. I will most likely just
handle the syncing of specific parts of the database on my own.

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