On Monday 17 January 2011 8:11:20 am Jensen Somers wrote: > On 17/01/2011 16:46, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:31:45PM +0100, Jensen Somers wrote: > >> But, from your initial reply I understood that a user can simply browse > >> to my database installation folder (e.g.: C:/ProgramData/MyApp/data), > >> read out and/or modify a configuration file and he can access the entire > >> database and modify the data. And that's what I want to prevent. > > > > Dunno about CE, but this is also trivial using SQLite. > > > > But also, given your needs, I wonder pretty seriously whether Postgres > > is the right thing for your application. It sounds like this is > > always single-user with no contention. Postgres is a bad fit for > > that. Use SQLite or one of the other things that target embedded use. > > > > A > > The problem is that the library I want to use does not support SQLite as > a database provider and SQL CE is limited to a database file of 4GB and > lacks several interesting SQL features, hence why I was interested in > using PostgreSQL. > > - Jensen Out of curiosity what library is that? -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
