Re: [OT] Database access with gtkmm application?

[Bob Caryl <bob fis-cal com>]

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I see.  I failed to understand earlier when you used the term
"database", which means a lot more than just a single indexed file to me.

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Jef Driesen wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
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