X-Original-To: pgsql-admin-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 586829FB371 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 01:14:38 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 41710-10 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 04:14:30 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: delayed 00:06:40.923496 by SQLgrey- Received: from web32509.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web32509.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.207.219]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2088F9FB370 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2006 01:14:30 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail 99777 invoked by uid 60001); 6 Aug 2006 04:07:47 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.ar; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=L+Uojf/9mNfDsVfrZziMarxl6WGw99L1AFSJe1qqJaSi8I4yMRwmB7fsIri3ji+6GbVLHWbu2bRq0v245TBfyrccDPF3+j6s2OXCQuXsnZQNuJIwyD/51yIe5Rx4xOMGLcQlejJKYNfzRYzfLfkjeLtJw9HLtfA9ta+RX/l3ePg= ; Message-ID: <20060806040747.99775.qmail@web32509.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.232.209.196] by web32509.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 06 Aug 2006 01:07:47 ART Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2006 01:07:47 -0300 (ART) From: jesus martinez Subject: running PostGres without installing it To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.291 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=FROM_HAS_ULINE_NUMS X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200608/53 X-Sequence-Number: 22597 hello, how are you ? i want to distribute a copy of PostGres to my clients. they really dont know anything about installing programs or configurating remote RDBMS sql-servers, so i dont want to give them the "official-PostGres-installer.exe" but my own installer.exe (win32) that: 1) install the PostGres's required files 2) modify the system as PostGres needs (registry, paths, etc) 3) execute it as a process, not as a service (if it is possible) (it must run also on win98 machines) 4) enable the server in a port readed from an INI file or something like that. 5) delete the default super-user or change its password 6) creates the tables-structure that my client-app needs 7a) insert the data or 7b) copy db-files to hdd, assign them in PostGres and make them available via PostGres. 8) create the dbuser that will be used by clients-apps 9) assign that dbuser to my tables all without any kind of user interaction. - where can i get information about the required information (i mean: basic required files, registry changes, conf files, sql commands to do what i need) ? - if this is not possible, may i call the default PostGre's installer in silent mode ? and if so, what are the command-lines to set the defaults settings ? - can any of you help me in any of those tasks ? thanks in advance, __________________________________________________ Preguntá. Respondé. Descubrí. Todo lo que querías saber, y lo que ni imaginabas, está en Yahoo! Respuestas (Beta). ¡Probalo ya! http://www.yahoo.com.ar/respuestas