[Lazarus] Embedded database for Lazarus/Linux

[Henry Vermaak]

On 17 June 2010 20:26, Henry Vermaak <henry.vermaak at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Not to mention speed.  I've written code for hash table indexed files,
and it isn't pretty.

Henry