Re: [OT] Database access with gtkmm application?

["Jef Driesen" <jefdriesen hotmail com>]

Bob Caryl wrote:
> Jef Driesen wrote:
> > A few years ago, I have written a windows application in Visual Basic. 
> Since
> > I'm (slowly) moving to linux, I want to rewrite it. For the GUI part, 
> gtkmm
> > seems a good choice (seems easy to use and cross-platform). But what are 
> my
> > options for the database part? Under windows, I have used the Visual 
> Basic
> > database classes with an MS Access database.
>
> I like to use PostgreSQL myself.  There is an API distributed with it
> called libpq.
>
> See http://www.postgresql.org/download/
>
> for details.

> From what I have read, PostgreSQL is for a client/server model only. And 
requiring a server for a simple desktop application, will make things 
unnecessary complicated.