[Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

[Henry Vermaak]

On 17 June 2010 20:07, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17/06/2010, Henry Vermaak wrote:
>> re-invent the wheel.  Why would you design your own buggy binary data
>> file that only your program can read,
>
> Last time I checked, writing a record to a binary file was pretty damn
> easy. I think I learned that in my first year of Turbo Pascal
> programming back in high school (many, many years ago). I can't see
> why that would be buggy either.

I've seen horrendous bugs, overflow, corruption.  What happens if your
structures change?  Can you do relations?  Let's not compare apples
with pears.