On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> I've been thinking about running postgres from read-only media. It's
>> handy for creating demo CDs etc.
>
> I think that a read-only installation of PostgreSQL would be a very poor
> demonstration of its capabilities. Better put the data in a RAM disk.
RAM space is limited.
I was thinking more of a demonstration CD of some other software that uses
PostgreSQL as kind of an embedded database. Of course, there's other
databases more suited for embedding.
- Heikki