We need to prevent multi-user access to the SQL backend (Re: New GnuCash article on LWN)

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I think I understand at least some of the reasons for GC being single-user,
but I'm curious if there's been any more thought lately to building
multi-user functionality into GnuCash in future?

Cheers,

-- Erik Anderson


On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de>wrote:

> Thanks, Herbert, for the link.
>
> The article raises one valid serious concern: The database backend does
> nothing to prevent multiple user access. This is bad because simultaneous
> access to the SQL database from multiple users will almost surely cause data
> loss. On the other hand, the technology term "SQL backend" will almost
> surely raise the user expectation that multiple user access were possible,
> so for sure people will give it a try. Since it will corrupt their data, we
> need to build in some prevention measure - the equivalent of the "lock
> file", but inside the SQL database. Ideas, anyone?
>
> Also, it's amusing to me to see the "cutecash" project already mentioned in
> there, even though it's only accessible through the SVN sources :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Christian
>
> Zitat von Herbert Thoma <herbert.thoma at iis.fraunhofer.de>:
>
>  http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/387967/cc502c0dc33d97d3/
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