Re: [GENERAL] Install PostgreSQL as part of a desktop application, but how to coop with existing installations?

2011-01-17 Thread Jensen Somers
On 17/01/2011 17:26, Adrian Klaver wrote: 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

Re: [GENERAL] Install PostgreSQL as part of a desktop application, but how to coop with existing installations?

2011-01-17 Thread Jensen Somers
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

Re: [GENERAL] Install PostgreSQL as part of a desktop application, but how to coop with existing installations?

2011-01-17 Thread Jensen Somers
Hi, On 17/01/2011 14:49, Craig Ringer wrote: On 01/17/2011 06:46 PM, Jensen Somers wrote: Once a recording session is completed the data should be locked and not modified anymore. And everything should be local on the user's PC, I can't use an external database server.

Re: [GENERAL] Install PostgreSQL as part of a desktop application, but how to coop with existing installations?

2011-01-17 Thread Jensen Somers
Hi, On 15/01/2011 14:21, Craig Ringer wrote: On 01/14/2011 03:45 PM, Jensen Somers wrote: Bundling it as part of my application is even better. I didn't knew if that would be possible, but it would solve some of the issues. Mainly data protection. The data that needs to be stored should n

Re: [GENERAL] Install PostgreSQL as part of a desktop application, but how to coop with existing installations?

2011-01-13 Thread Jensen Somers
Hi, On 14/01/2011 7:35, Craig Ringer wrote: On 01/14/2011 06:26 AM, Jensen Somers wrote: I know that some applications (Poker Tracker 3 is the first one that comes to my mind) It's not a good example, either, as demonstrated by the number of questions that pop up about it on this list

[GENERAL] Install PostgreSQL as part of a desktop application, but how to coop with existing installations?

2011-01-13 Thread Jensen Somers
Hi, I am looking into using PostgreSQL as a database service in a desktop application since it's one of the support local database systems by DataObjects.net and has more features and higher limitations than SQL server express. I prefer a database versus a traditional binary data file, but I