Re: win32 pgsql not installable

["Merlin Moncure" <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com>]

> Once postgres is available on windows machines I think it will used in
a
> multitude of applications - some of which are directed towards single
> user situations. With the utmost respect I feel postgres needs to run
> without issues of the kind presently being presented.

On this point I agree with you 100%.  PostgreSQL has some features which
make it ideal for packaging with an application.  I used to work for a
company that wrote GIS software which had heavy data requirements.  At
the time, tho, there was no viable win32 option, now there is.

IMO, app + database installations should not install the full server.
The application should open a pipe to postgres.exe.  (the app could be
installed with a pre-bootstrapped database).  The problem of course is
that means losing the libpq library.  Thus, the long term solution is to
have libpq/odbc/jdbc interface wrapper access to a standalone backend.
These don't exist right now, but perhaps they might one day.  In the
mean time, we all have to work around this :(

Merlin