Comment 9 for bug 1225

I'm not quite sure: isn't there still the "old method" that doesn't require postgres?

Yes, but the UI offers the new way and makes the new way the default, so users will experience badness/crashes.

> What I'd really love to do is: not depend on postgres (because it will upset users, who work on
> another postgres host),

Could you give an example of such a situation? If they installed Glom then they probably want what Glom needs.

One problem you probably do have is that the regular debian/Ubuntu postgres installation causes a postgres instance to be run at start up (though the user can stop it in the Services control panel). That makes sense if you install postgres directly, but it's not needed or used by Glom.

> but patch glom to install potsgres, if they choose to use the selfhosting feature.

That's an idea, but I want self-hosting to be the default, not an additional option.