[pilot-db-list] Re: syncing

[Patrick L. <pm...@ca...>]

I have been thinking about this database syncing problem.
Since I am a Unix user I was thinking about using PostgreSQL
on the desktop side of things. PostgreSQL automatically maintains
a unique number for each record in a table (oid or ObjectID). I
was planning on using that and a dat stamp somehow to do the easy syncing.
The only hard part would be resolving edits on both the desktop and
the palm to the same record. New records on either, deletes on
either and modifications to a record on one would be (relatively)
simple. And as someone else mentioned, I am speaking from absolutley
no experience doing palm programming.

I recently purchased
"Palm Database Programming : The Complete Developer's Guide"
by Eric Giguere but have not yet opened it.
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Patrick Landry                     The Center for Advanced Computer Studies
Senior System Administrator        The University of Louisiana at Lafayette
pm...@ca...             PO Box 44330, Lafayette, LA 70504-4330