PostgreSQL 9.6 snap and feedback

[Sergio Schvezov]

El 02/09/16 a las 14:15, Michael Hall escribió:
> 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.

Yes, this is indeed an option for snaps from the same publisher. But you 
are now discussing inter snap communication and while the content 
interface seems good in the beginning, some things might be better 
served by using an interface specific to databases (as this is the topic 
at hand).