Re: [OT] Database access with gtkmm application?

["Jef Driesen" <jefdriesen hotmail com>]

Bob Caryl wrote:
> Jef Driesen wrote:
> > 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.
>
> MS Access doesn't run a server?

An MS Access database (*.mdb) is only a file, which can be accessed with
the appropriate database drivers installed.