On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:41 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:30:33 +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> From what I can see at >>> > http://monetdb.cwi.nl/projects/monetdb/SQL/Documentation/Embedded-Server.html#Embedded-Server >>> the "embedded"-mode is still a server, just for >>> embedded systems. >>> I was talking about having the database as a library >>> be a part of the program. >>> Nothing to install or to start separately. >> >> You could always make your program embed/start the database server >> regardless of whether it's a library or a server. It would just mean >> e.g. shipping the postgresql binaries with your program and doing some >> magic in your program that ensures that the server is started when the >> program is. > > And determining what platform's binary to run in the first place > (Windows? Linux? Solaris?, Windows Mobile?, ...) including the > version of the libc. I thought about what is possible here for a while now > and I guess the effort and download-size are not worth it.
You'd build postrgresql with the compilation flags you'd use for your program: Problem solved. Any embedded database like sqlite would have to talk to libc too, and so (presumably) would your main program. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
