Using Postgres with GnuCash

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Aug 31 23:53:51 EDT 2004


Stanley Davis <stdavis at usadatanet.net> writes:

> First, I would like to find out if my system is already setup so that
> GnuCash can use Postgres.  I have Fedora Core 2 installed.  I did a
> complete install of everything.  Does anyone know if the install process
> setup and configures GnuCash to use Postgres.  If not what steps would I
> need to take to set it up and start saving data to a database.

Frankly, you don't want to do that unless you want to crash gnucash,
lose data, or be REALLY REALLY SLOW.

You can compile gnucash with --enable-sql to enable the postgres support,
but honestly, you don't want to do that.

-derek
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