On Monday 17 January 2011 8:11:20 am Jensen Somers wrote:
> On 17/01/2011 16:46, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:31:45PM +0100, Jensen Somers wrote:
> >> But, from your initial reply I understood that a user can simply browse
> >> to my database installation folder (e.g.: C:/ProgramData/MyApp/data),
> >> read out and/or modify a configuration file and he can access the entire
> >> database and modify the data. And that's what I want to prevent.
> >
> > Dunno about CE, but this is also trivial using SQLite.
> >
> > But also, given your needs, I wonder pretty seriously whether Postgres
> > is the right thing for your application.  It sounds like this is
> > always single-user with no contention.  Postgres is a bad fit for
> > that.  Use SQLite or one of the other things that target embedded use.
> >
> > A
>
> The problem is that the library I want to use does not support SQLite as
> a database provider and SQL CE is limited to a database file of 4GB and
> lacks several interesting SQL features, hence why I was interested in
> using PostgreSQL.
>
> - Jensen

Out of curiosity what library is that?

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