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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: Richard Huxton <[email protected]>
Cc: David Fetter <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: FAQ on Embedding Postgres
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:09:38 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Richard Huxton wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Richard Huxton wrote:
> >> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >>> David Fetter wrote:
> >>>> If you really need to embed an
> >>>> SQL engine in a binary, consider the excellent
> >>>> <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/">SQLite</a;
> >> or <a href="http://http://www.firebirdsql.org/">Firebird</a;
> >>
> >>>> for the purpose.
> >> Just to be fair.
> > 
> > sqlite seems much more appropriate for embedding.
> 
> It's certainly the lightest DB I'm aware of, but Firebird does have an 
> embedded mode (apparentl - I tend to use a different DB :-)

Right.  The issue with Firebird is it does both embedded and
traditional, while sqlite is only embedded, so is probably a better
choice for that purpose.

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  Bruce Momjian  <[email protected]>        http://momjian.us
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