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