sqlite file format, anyone?
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Jun 23 23:02:02 CDT 2003
Christopher Browne <gnucash at cbbrowne.com> writes:
> A major problem with creating some new "embedded DBMS" is that by the
> time you get finished dealing with the concurrency challenges, you'll
> probably have gone off and recreated an ad hoc, informally-specified,
> bug-ridden slow implementation of about half of PostgreSQL. And what is
> even more unfortunate is that the resulting code will probably be
> _bigger_ than PG...
I dont think so, because an embedded SQL database is meant for
single-user access. There is no concurrency challenge because there
is nothing with which to be concurrent (except yourself).
-derek
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