Re: [GENERAL] PostGreSQL for a small Desktop Application

2007-06-14 Thread Gabriele
On 14 Giu, 12:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Colombo) wrote: > While PG has tons more features than SQLite, the major question here is: > do you really need a database _server_? One thing that PG is designed > for is handling many (as in 100) concurrent users. Database users, that > is, meaning proc

Re: [GENERAL] PostGreSQL for a small Desktop Application

2007-06-14 Thread Greg Smith
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Marco Colombo wrote: PG still has advantages vs. SQLite, being more featured (do you need stored-procedures?). But if you plan to use an ORM tool for .Net you might even be able to switch between SQLite and PostgreSQL at any time w/o even noticing The main thing to be wa

Re: [GENERAL] PostGreSQL for a small Desktop Application

2007-06-14 Thread Marco Colombo
Gabriele wrote: I'm going to develop a medium sized business desktop client server application which will be deployed mostly on small sized networks and later eventually, hopefully, on medium sized networks. It will probably be developed using C#. I do need a solid DBMS wich can work with .Net f

Re: [GENERAL] PostGreSQL for a small Desktop Application

2007-06-13 Thread Oisin Glynn
David Gardner wrote: I'm not much of a .Net guy, but the pgsql-ODBC driver works rather well for me. Take a look at: http://psqlodbc.projects.postgresql.org/howto-csharp.html As for Windows XP, isn't there some limit to the number of incoming network connections? --- David Gardner, IT The Yuc

Re: [GENERAL] PostGreSQL for a small Desktop Application

2007-06-13 Thread Gabriele
I will probably try PostGreSQL for my needs as it seem powerful enough and easy to ship to my potential customers. For the data provider i will try npgsql as you and others suggested, as it seem enough reliable and stable to be used efficiently. I will probably use newsgroups again later if and wh

Re: [GENERAL] PostGreSQL for a small Desktop Application

2007-06-13 Thread David Gardner
I'm not much of a .Net guy, but the pgsql-ODBC driver works rather well for me. Take a look at: http://psqlodbc.projects.postgresql.org/howto-csharp.html As for Windows XP, isn't there some limit to the number of incoming network connections? --- David Gardner, IT The Yucaipa Companies (310) 22

Re: [GENERAL] PostGreSQL for a small Desktop Application

2007-06-13 Thread Owen Hartnett
At 12:34 PM +0200 6/13/07, Magnus Hagander wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 10:44:38AM -0700, Gabriele wrote: I'm going to develop a medium sized business desktop client server application which will be deployed mostly on small sized networks and later eventually, hopefully, on medium sized net

Re: [GENERAL] PostGreSQL for a small Desktop Application

2007-06-13 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 10:44:38AM -0700, Gabriele wrote: > I'm going to develop a medium sized business desktop client server > application which will be deployed mostly on small sized networks and > later eventually, hopefully, on medium sized networks. > It will probably be developed using C#. >

Re: [GENERAL] PostGreSQL for a small Desktop Application

2007-06-12 Thread Steve Atkins
On Jun 11, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Gabriele wrote: I'm going to develop a medium sized business desktop client server application which will be deployed mostly on small sized networks and later eventually, hopefully, on medium sized networks. It will probably be developed using C#. I do need a soli