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On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 05:12:56PM +0200, Anders Nore wrote:
> One of the reasons for using BDB is that it is in the base system, SQLite 
> however is not.

I'm aware of that. But I believe that the pain and suffering of importing and
maintaining SQLite in the base (that is, the cost) is outweighed by its richer
feature set and higher-level API, facilitating easier tools development.

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Jos Backus
jos at catnook.com