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I have a Windows .NET standalone app. and I want to include PostgreSQL database setup with my application's Setup. Is it possible?

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Actually for PostgreSQL you don't really need to run the installer, you can simply unzip all the files. The installer would then use initdb to initialize the data directory and from within your application you can then use pg_ctl to start and stop the server when your application starts without registering it as a service.

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Depending on what you use for setup you could probably embed the installer and then execute it before/after your application's installation.

However, don't forget to make it optional. For example, I have both MySQL and PostgreSQL servers running in my local network so I would never install any of them on my local windows machine but rather make applications requiring a database server connect to the existing one. In such a case a forced installation would be annoying.

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Without knowing what you use to create your setup: No.
I use the built-in installed that comes with Visual Studio 2008.
Sounds like ClickOnce. I don't think you can execute installers with it. But you can include the exe as a data file and then execute it from your application if necessary. The nice thing is that you don't even have to include it in the main download but that you can trigger the download in your code.

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