Comment 27 for bug 1225

> forced to install postgresql-8.2 to use glom
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 > don't want a server on each thin client that hardly can run the client).

The Postgresql binary is an implementation detail that should not be of interest to users. The problem here is not that Postgresql is installed, but that an unnecessary and unused instance of Postgresql is _started_ when it is installed just for Glom.