Re: Install PostgreSQL as part of a desktop application, but how to coop with existing installations? - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:31:45PM +0100, Jensen Somers wrote:
>
> But, from your initial reply I understood that a user can simply browse
> to my database installation folder (e.g.: C:/ProgramData/MyApp/data),
> read out and/or modify a configuration file and he can access the entire
> database and modify the data. And that's what I want to prevent.

Dunno about CE, but this is also trivial using SQLite.

But also, given your needs, I wonder pretty seriously whether Postgres
is the right thing for your application.  It sounds like this is
always single-user with no contention.  Postgres is a bad fit for
that.  Use SQLite or one of the other things that target embedded use.

A

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