Re: [GENERAL] Windows Installation User account - Correct database for us

2014-07-17 Thread Wolfgang Keller
H2 or SQLite can be very reasonable choices for in-app embedded databases, so long as your app can operate within their constraints on concurrency and data size. Firefox uses SQLite and the places.sqlite database is notorious for getting corrupted every five minutes. Libreoffice/Openoffice

Re: [GENERAL] Windows Installation User account - Correct database for us

2014-07-17 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 07/17/2014 07:30 AM, Wolfgang Keller wrote: H2 or SQLite can be very reasonable choices for in-app embedded databases, so long as your app can operate within their constraints on concurrency and data size. Firefox uses SQLite and the places.sqlite database is notorious for getting corrupted

Re: [GENERAL] Windows Installation User account - Correct database for us

2014-07-13 Thread Craig Ringer
On 07/11/2014 08:01 AM, Don Brown wrote: Hello We are writing a small application and we are trying to determine if PostgreSQL is the right database for us. The application at this stage is only for a single user and commonly for persons with little computer expertise. When the

Re: [GENERAL] Windows Installation User account - Correct database for us

2014-07-11 Thread Thomas Kellerer
When the database is installed a postgreSQL user account is created which in most cases will be the second user account on the PC. No, not any longer. This has changed with 9.1 or 9.2 (don't remember). The Postgres service that is installed uses the local network account. The programmer

[GENERAL] Windows Installation User account - Correct database for us

2014-07-11 Thread Don Brown
Hello We are writing a small application and we are trying to determine if PostgreSQL is the right database for us. The application at this stage is only for a single user and commonly for persons with little computer expertise. When the database is installed a postgreSQL user account is

Re: [GENERAL] Windows Installation User account - Correct database for us

2014-07-11 Thread Igor Neyman
From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Don Brown Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 7:56 PM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: [GENERAL] Windows Installation User account - Correct database for us Hello We are writing a small

[GENERAL] Windows Installation User account - Correct database for us

2014-07-10 Thread Don Brown
Hello We are writing a small application and we are trying to determine if PostgreSQL is the right database for us. The application at this stage is only for a single user and commonly for persons with little computer expertise. When the database is installed a postgreSQL user account is

Re: [GENERAL] Windows Installation User account - Correct database for us

2014-07-10 Thread Steve Atkins
On Jul 10, 2014, at 5:01 PM, Don Brown dbr...@msd.net.au wrote: Hello We are writing a small application and we are trying to determine if PostgreSQL is the right database for us. The application at this stage is only for a single user and commonly for persons with little computer

Re: [GENERAL] Windows Installation User account - Correct database for us

2014-07-10 Thread John R Pierce
On 7/10/2014 5:01 PM, Don Brown wrote: When the database is installed a postgreSQL user account is created which in most cases will be the second user account on the PC. The result of this is the user now has to select the user account when ever the computer is restarted. I thought I saw

Re: [GENERAL] Windows Installation User account - Correct database for us

2014-07-10 Thread David G Johnston
Don Brown wrote Thank you and appreciate any comments/suggestions Host the database in a shared-tenent arrangement and have your application remotely connect to it or to an intermediary application that will then perform the work and simply deal with input/output with the client. Dave --