You should check out Firebird (firebirdsql.sourceforge.net). I believe
your can set databases to be read-only and when embedding, Firebird is
a single DLL.
Jacob
On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 15:42:32 -0400, Christopher Browne
<cbbrowne@acm.org> wrote:
>Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing whenjoostkremers@fastmail.fm (Joost Kremers)wrote:
>> i am planning to build a database (a dictionary in fact) that i will
>> eventually want to distribute on a cd (or downloadable iso). what i
>> would like to know is if this is technically possible with
>> postgresql. and how exactly would it be done? would i have to make
>> postgresql run off the cd, or should it first be installed to the
>> hard disk? (the latter would be problematic on linux, given the many
>> different distros and their different package management systems...)
>> how would i deal with systems that already have a postgreql server
>> or (more difficult perhaps) a different database server running?
