From: | Henrik Zagerholm <henke(at)mac(dot)se> |
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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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