aburgh@mac.com (Aaron Burghardt) wrote in message news:<A5CEF61A-E47B-11D8-A34D-000393B8BDAA@mac.com>...
> On Aug 1, 2004, at 6:26 PM, Christopher Browne wrote:
>
> > Measuring it as binary installs:
> >
> > - Installing PostgreSQL on Debian requires adding a 9.8MB package.
> > - Installing MySQL on Debian requires adding several packages adding
> > up to (+ 8.7 0.2 1.0 0.6), or roughly 10.3MB.
> > - Installing FireBird2 requires (+ 2.2 0.7 2.4 1.8) or about 7.1MB.
> >
>
> I compiled PostgreSQL on Mac OS X with optimization -Os (for size) and
> the resulting installation was less than 2 MB. I am looking to embed it
> in applications to reduce administrative effort, so size matters in my
> case.
>
If size matters, SQLite weighs in at less than 250KB when compiled for
size.