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Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:05:30 +0000
From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
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Subject: Re: FAQ on Embedding Postgres
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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 :-)

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   Richard Huxton
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