Re: [OT] Database access with gtkmm application?

["Jef Driesen" <jefdriesen hotmail com>]

Bob Caryl wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.

It's not a database in the sense of a client/server database (like MySQL
or PostgreSQL). It's more similar to an sqlite database (like someone
mentioned in this topic), where the database is a single file. But it's
also a database in the sense that data is manipulated with SQL commands,
just like their big brothers.