This package is a zc.buildout recipe which allows to install a custom version of the PostgreSQL database server, locally to the package you are working on.

It can install the database server from:

• source: this is handy if you want to quickly test your application with a new release of PostgreSQL or with a new development snapshot;
• pre-compiled binary: if you already have a compiled version of PostgreSQL, you can also reuse it to speed up the buildout process.

The recipe will give you several tools in the bin/ directory to control the server. Thus, you will be able to start and stop it, launch a command line utility on the server, and so on.

For installation issue please refer to INSTALL.

You can test or use this code simply by launching:

python bootstrap.py
buildout

This will install all dependency needed by this code to start coding.

Complete documentation can be generated thanks to:

bin/doc