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[Jeroen Vermeulen <jtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Hudson wrote:

> > Would it make sense to have a zc.buildout-managed postgres instance?
> > It's not hard to set up a local cluster, under the current system user's
> > id, with a Unix-domain socket--something I've been wanting for a long
> > time but never got around to working on.  The "all your db are belong to
> > us" assumptions we have now are really ugly.
>
> Yes please.  This is related to bug #107371 ("Make the test suite able
> to be run in parallel on a single machine",
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-foundations/+bug/107371).

Stub made a very sensible observation about this that I'd missed 
completely: there's nothing stopping us from setting up separate, 
user-owned database clusters _using the system-wide installed postgres_. 
 We can run it using our own private configuration files etc.

So no buildout needed, really.  We'd still get pretty much all the benefits.


Jeroen