sqlite file format, anyone?

[Derek Atkins]

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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