Re: embedded/"serverless" (Re: serverless postgresql) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: embedded/"serverless" (Re: serverless postgresql)
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Msg-id 20040121223112.GA8058@phlogiston.dyndns.org
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In response to Re: embedded/"serverless" (Re: serverless postgresql)  ("Rick Gigger" <rick@alpinenetworking.com>)
Responses Re: embedded/"serverless" (Re: serverless postgresql)  ("Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>)
Re: embedded/"serverless" (Re: serverless postgresql)  (David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com>)
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 11:23:40AM -0700, Rick Gigger wrote:
>
> Yes but sometimes an enterprise level application may need to be put on a
> laptop and taken off-line.  Having an embedded database that is compatible
> with the one on the server makes this a bit easier to do.

Why can't you just run a postgres instance for this?  What is magic
about "embedded" for this sort of application?  Sounds like a clever
wrapper script is all that's necessary for something like that, no?

A

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