SQL backend for GnuCash 2

[Graham Leggett]

Benoit Gregoire wrote:

> Yes you can (whith a "real" database).  Checking that the sum of the 
> transaction's splits is 0 it trivial if all splits use the same commodity, 
> and mostly irrelevent if they don't.  That's a really simple stored 
> procedure.

And in the process, you restrict people to using just one "real" 
database, instead of any database convenient to them.

Stored procedures are a double edged sword - very powerful, at the cost 
of database vendor lockin. For a multi platform application like 
Gnucash, vendor lockin makes no sense.

Regards,
Graham
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