Get PostgreSQL installed as part of the distros

[Alesh Mustar]

Lars,

you opened this question yourself in the first part of your email, how
will user maintain it? Beside default installs in distributions, any plans
on solving this question?

Alesh

On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Lars Pind wrote:

> Hi Gnucash-people
> 
> I witnessed a talk by Linas at the NYLUG meeting this past Wednesday, and there was some talk about using PostgreSQL as a back-end storage for GNUCash.
> 
> Linas said that one of the major obstacles would be the support issue -- stepping people through installing and setting up PostgreSQL, not to speak of maintaining it.
> 
> We at ArsDigta/OpenACS (arsdigita.com, openacs.org) are in a similar situation. We're about to get our product, ACS, included on RedHat and a number of other distros, but we depend on a running PostgreSQL installation. So far, we've planned on installing and setting up PostgreSQL ourselves, with some RPM and shell script magic. 
> 
> But Linas' talk sparked this idea: Wouldn't it be a lot more clever if we could convince the distros to make a running, configured PostgreSQL installation part of the default install, for the benefit of all? Application developers could then start relying on a working PostgreSQL installation, so they could concentrate on adding value instead.
> 
> We're already trying to use our influence to make this happen, but the more the merrier. 
> 
> I'd like to hear how interested you would be in this, if we could make it happen.
> 
> Thanks,
> /Lars
> 
> 
> 
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