Re: embedded postgres

Great!  Thats exactly what I want.  Now if it's got a SQL engine that won't
require me to alter any of my code...

Thanks!


> On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Rick Gigger wrote:
>
> > Is there an embedded version of postgres that I could compile into a
desktop
> > app?  I would just use embedded mysql but I don't want to GPL my code or
pay
> > them for a licence, plus all of the code was already built for postgres
> > server.
>
> Have you looked at small databases that were designed for this sort of
> thing from the ground up?
>
> I'd look at hsql http://sourceforge.net/projects/hsqldb/ for a choice.
> At 100k, it's a pretty small database engine that seems to get a lot of
> activity.  I'm betting it's not built for 100 users all thrashing it at
> once, but for imbedded apps, it's hard to say no to a 100k database
> engine.  And, it's got all the BSD goodness you're used to with
> Postgresql.
>
> There are a couple other small databases like this floating around out
> there as well.
>
>