Database files, once they corrupt, you lose ALL data. Text files, once
they are corrupt, cause you to lose only those settings.
The FS is the IDEAL place to store preferences. You obviously need to
choose the best FS.
Obviously it makes NO sense to roam your preferences around without your
homedir. It's like roaming your house without the furniture and
appliances.
El mar, 06-04-2004 a las 07:20, jamie escribió:
> On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 08:28, Markus Bertheau wrote:
> > В Втр, 06.04.2004, в 02:03, Rodrigo Moya пишет:
> > > On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 01:12 +0200, Markus Bertheau wrote:
> > > >
> > > > PostgreSQL can easily be set up automatically by a software daemon of
> > > > some sort, without manual intervention.
> > > >
> > > yes, I know, but what if I add later on a user to the system? Giving
> > > permissions to that user and create a database for it is not an easy
> > > task for 'normal' desktop users.
> >
> > The daemon can handle that, too.
>
> Well firebird does not need any daemon even to run let alone setup.
>
> The Embedded Firebird version is just a shared library (no daemon
> needed). The embedded version is not network transparent and theres no
> security or need for users to be defined but that should be okay cause
> no one on the network can access it (so we dont need user/password
> security). In fact its so easy to use and install that the whole
> complaint about installation, setting up users and permissions is a
> complete non issue with embedded Firebird. The database files can sit in
> a user's home directories so the lack of security in the embedded
> version is also a non issue.
>
> It gets even better bacause the same database can be used with the
> network transparent client/server version if its needed (some users will
> want to access storage on remote machines via the network so its a nice
> to have this feature as optional even if it involves more configuration
> but certainly the embeddable version should be default for ease of use)
>
> Nobody wants to have a monster RDBMS like Oracle or Postgres on the
> desktop when a small and simple shared library would suffice. All
> versions of Firebird are self tuning and no DBA is required at all and
> thats what makes it such a great embeddable RDBMS. (Postgres is not self
> tuning AFAIK).
>
> jamie.
>
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