"Merlin Moncure" <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com> writes:
> I think the ultimate solution to this problem is to beef up the
> standalone backend functionality so that apps can just pipe to
> postgres.exe and not bother with the listening server (and security
> implications thereof).
This is actually on the to-do list (or at least my personal to-do list).
I had wanted it so that we could run "pg_dump -s" without a running
postmaster for pg_upgrade purposes. Bear in mind though that you'd only
get *one* database connection (no, you can't have multiple standalone
backends at once), so I'm not sure it would really be all that great
as a general-purpose application backend.
regards, tom lane
