Re: Needed files - embedded postgres - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Henrik Zagerholm
Subject Re: Needed files - embedded postgres
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Msg-id 305812E4-C1C5-4D2F-859D-137B87441D74@mac.se
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In response to Re: Needed files - embedded postgres  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Needed files - embedded postgres  (Ragnar <gnari@hive.is>)
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I think I need to specify what I mean with embedded.
Its not that we try to embed it into an application.
It is just run from a flash disk and the datafiles are put on
standard raid attached disks.

Its an embedded device not an embedded application. :)

Cheers,
Henrik


15 dec 2006 kl. 16:30 skrev Tom Lane:

> Henrik Zagerholm <henke@mac.se> writes:
>>> Postgres has been designed as a server, and lots of
>>> implementation details might not make sense in an embedded
>>> context. you might be better served by SQLite, or some other
>>> such library.
>
>> ... It is also quite crash resistant with the WAL implementation.
>
> One of the reasons it's crash resistant is exactly that it's *not*
> embedded, and thus not subject to corruption by application-side bugs.
> That concern is what has caused the developers to have zero interest
> in creating an embeddable variant.
>
>             regards, tom lane
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