Firebird is a nice, small, ACID compliant database that embeds well. firebird.sourceforge.net Rick pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 10/03/2005 12:12:44 AM: > Samik Raychaudhuri <samik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > ... What I wanted is a no-trace (or minimal trace), no-admin required > > kind of installation (I won't be able to create a non-admin user in the > > comp), which, when I am done, I can just delete the installation > > directory and will be clear. > > Postgres isn't really designed to be the sort of "embedded" database > that you seem to be after. You should look at other alternatives. > (Berkeley DB is one possibility that's written by friends of ours ;-)) > > In particular, you'll get zero sympathy here for any request to let the > database run as an admin-level user. The IPC communication structure we > use does not allow restricting requests to just one program, and hence > ignoring security issues is simply not a sane thing to do. > > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to > choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not > match ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend