Re: Embedded postgres ?

From: Henning Follmann <h(dot)follmann(at)gmx(dot)de>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Embedded postgres ?
Date: 2001-10-11 13:08:51
Message-ID: slrn9sb6f3.lc.h.follmann@mobile.follmann-net
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On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 14:18:41 +0000 (UTC), John P. Looney
<john(at)bartender(dot)internal(dot)antefacto(dot)com> wrote:
> How well is postgres suited for small applications ?
>
> I don't know it's architecture too well, though even with a very small
> database, it seems to use a huge number of files, which are all quite
> large, for the small amount of information in it.

Well, this is not for what postgres was designed for.
For embedded systems you are looking for databases that are optimised
for running completely in memory. Also a SQL engine is maybe not well
suited for embedded devices.
Better would be databases like Berley DB or GDBM. They are though not
comparable to RDBMS like postgres, etc...

>
> For a database of say a megabyte, could someone take a guess at how small
> an installation I could get postgres down to ?
>

Cheers,
Henning

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