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

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Needed files - embedded postgres
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Msg-id 8921.1166196659@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Needed files - embedded postgres  (Henrik Zagerholm <henke@mac.se>)
Responses Re: Needed files - embedded postgres  (Henrik Zagerholm <henke@mac.se>)
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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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