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
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Martha Stewart called it a Good Thing [EMAIL PROTECTED] (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?


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