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From: David Fetter <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Huxton <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Docs <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: FAQ on Embedding Postgres
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 09:41:26 -0800
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On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:35:53PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> > 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.
> 
> Is it really a good idea to be recommending particular other
> products?  And don't forget that the next thing on that list would
> be mysql.
> 
> If we need a FAQ entry on this at all, I'd stop after David's first
> two sentences.

Stopping there seems like a very bad idea from a public relations
point of view.  Making the suggestion generic and naming several FLOSS
DBs as an alternative might work better.

Cheers,
David.
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David Fetter <[email protected]> http://fetter.org/
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