From: | Jensen Somers <jensen(at)aimproductions(dot)be> |
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To: | adrian(dot)klaver(at)gmail(dot)com |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Install PostgreSQL as part of a desktop application, but how to coop with existing installations? |
Date: | 2011-01-17 18:21:05 |
Message-ID: | 4D348891.1000409@aimproductions.be |
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On 17/01/2011 17:26, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On Monday 17 January 2011 8:11:20 am Jensen Somers wrote:
>> On 17/01/2011 16:46, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:31:45PM +0100, Jensen Somers wrote:
>>>> But, from your initial reply I understood that a user can simply browse
>>>> to my database installation folder (e.g.: C:/ProgramData/MyApp/data),
>>>> read out and/or modify a configuration file and he can access the entire
>>>> database and modify the data. And that's what I want to prevent.
>>> Dunno about CE, but this is also trivial using SQLite.
>>>
>>> But also, given your needs, I wonder pretty seriously whether Postgres
>>> is the right thing for your application. It sounds like this is
>>> always single-user with no contention. Postgres is a bad fit for
>>> that. Use SQLite or one of the other things that target embedded use.
>>>
>>> A
>> The problem is that the library I want to use does not support SQLite as
>> a database provider and SQL CE is limited to a database file of 4GB and
>> lacks several interesting SQL features, hence why I was interested in
>> using PostgreSQL.
>>
>> - Jensen
> Out of curiosity what library is that?
>
The ORM framework I want to use is http://dataobjects.net/
- Jensen
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