PG only runs as a daemon. However, you can connect over UNIX-domain
sockets rather than Internet sockets if you want.
Jon
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Gregory Stone wrote:
> Is there a way from C++ to essentailly use postgresql as an embedded
> database? I have a situation where I'd rather have a postgrtes daemon
> running on my customer's machine except when my client application is up.
> Preferably I'd like to not have to establish a network connection, and
> hence use the daemon at all, to the datbase but just perform queries from
> my c++ code. I've only used postgresql over the net, with a daemon, and
> JDBC which is the traditional method so this is new territory. Can anyone
> point me in the right direction in the docs?
>
> Thanks in advance for the help.
>
> -Gregory
>
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