Re: FAQ on Embedding Postgres

On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:35:53PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Richard Huxton wrote:
> >> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > David Fetter wrote:
> >>> If you really need to embed an
> >>> SQL engine in a binary, consider the excellent
> >>> <a href="http://www.sqlite.org/">SQLite</a>
> >>
> >> or <a href="http://http://www.firebirdsql.org/">Firebird</a>
> >>
> > for the purpose.
> >>
> >> Just to be fair.
>
> > sqlite seems much more appropriate for embedding.
>
> Is it really a good idea to be recommending particular other
> products?  And don't forget that the next thing on that list would
> be mysql.
>
> If we need a FAQ entry on this at all, I'd stop after David's first
> two sentences.

Stopping there seems like a very bad idea from a public relations
point of view.  Making the suggestion generic and naming several FLOSS
DBs as an alternative might work better.

Cheers,
David.
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