PostgreSQL 9.6 snap and feedback

[Michael Hall]

On 09/02/2016 01:06 PM, Evan Dandrea wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 at 04:30 Mark Shuttleworth <mark at ubuntu.com
> <mailto:mark at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Remember they can also build postgres INTO their own snap (and it
>     actually might be worth exporting a shared pg part so people can do
>     that trivially).
> 
> 
> And this is exactly what happened with Mongo. Gustavo wrote a Mongo
> snap. The Rocket.Chat guys picked it up and used it as a part. Then we
> pushed it to the parts server (`snapcraft search mongodb`) so others can
> benefit.
> 
> +1 to a postgres part.
> 
> 

Yet another option would be to use the new content interface to build
postgresql snap that can share it's binaries and libraries into your
snap, so you can call them to setup and manage a local database in your
own application's directories.

Michael Hall
mhall119 at ubuntu.com