Re: Needed files - embedded postgres

From: Henrik Zagerholm <henke(at)mac(dot)se>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Ragnar <gnari(at)hive(dot)is>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Needed files - embedded postgres
Date: 2006-12-15 15:59:36
Message-ID: 305812E4-C1C5-4D2F-859D-137B87441D74@mac.se
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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(at)mac(dot)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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