Re: Portable Postgres?

On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 05:22:55PM -0700, Brian Ghidinelli wrote:
>
> Josh Berkus wrote:
> >It's been talked about but AFAIK nobody has done it.
>
> Thanks Josh, that's what I feared. It seems like all of the command
> line parameters should make it possible but the requirement for a
> non-administrator user could complicate things (particularly on,
> say, a internet cafe machine that has restricted permissions).
>
> I'll try and poke around a bit. Alternatively, can you compile
> Postgres from source without that restriction?

There's been some talk about this, but I believe that's about as far
as it's gone.

How about using a LiveCD with PostgreSQL included?

Also, could you clarify a bit what you'd be trying to do with it, and
what restrictions the soluation needs to take into account?

Cheers,
D
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