embedded/"serverless" (Re: serverless postgresql)

From: David Garamond <lists(at)zara(dot)6(dot)isreserved(dot)com>
To: Jeff Bowden <jlb(at)houseofdistraction(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: embedded/"serverless" (Re: serverless postgresql)
Date: 2004-01-15 06:09:02
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Jeff Bowden wrote:
> For ease of configuration and other reasons, I would like for my
> single-user GUI app to be able to use postgresql in-process as a library
> accessing a database created in the users home directory. I think I
> could possibly get what I want by launching a captive copy of postmaster
> with appropriate args but it seems conceptually cleaner to not have a
> seperate process at all. Has anyone tried to do anything like this?

[Sorry for not actually answering this question]

I believe the demands for embedded/"serverless" version of PostgreSQL to
increase significantly once PostgreSQL is natively available on Windows.
So I would expect that official embedded support to follow quite shortly
after win32 port has stabilized. :-)

--
dave

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