On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 06:52:53AM -0500, Robert Bernier wrote:
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> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
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> >Robert Treat wrote:
> >
> >>There have been people on other disks asking about getting knoppix
> >>flavored distros to carry postgresql for their own demonstrations, I
> >>think it would be great if someone could put together a distro with
> >>postgresql, pgadmin, pgaccess, phppgadmin, and maybe a few other tools,
> >>that could boot from a cd to be handed out for demonstration purposes. I
> >>won't pretend like it wouldn't be a good sized project to undertake.
>
> A knoppix variant with Postgres installed has already been done.
Does it actually run? I thought Postgres was not prepared to run on
read-only media. It needs a separate PGDATA area, doesn't it?
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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
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pero era forzoso admitir la posibilidad de que en un caso entre millones,
las patatas pelarían al hombre" (Ijon Tichy)