[Lazarus] More explorations with tiOPF

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:

> Op 2011-03-15 12:13, Sven Barth het geskryf:
>> 
>> No need to setup a server. Just download the library (or install it
>> using your distro's package manager) and be happy.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>> ... only consists of a small
>> (~300kB) library that contains the whole DB engine. It also supports
>> pure in-memory databases ;)
>> 
>> Thus its best suited for embedded cases (we use it on Windows Mobile
>> devices).
>
>
> OK, so it's like Firebird Embedded DB's then. That's nice and easy. :)

I don't recommend it for use with pascal, since it does no type checking
whatsoever - at least last time I tried - thus you can perfectly store a
string in e.g. an integer field.

Combined with Pascal code, this can lead to very unfortunate results.

Michael.