DB design document

Dave Peticolas dave@krondo.com
Wed, 13 Dec 2000 18:14:31 -0800


David Merrill writes:
> Please take a look at the latest revision of my design document and
> give me some feedback.
> 
> Some of the issues I'm dealing with:
> 
> 1. Architecture: A big, fuzzy cloud right now.
> 2. Security: Lots of questions, few answers. Among the questions,
> encryption over the wire, locking down the db itself (depends on the
> db), and managing user permissions on some kind of capabilities model
> tbd.
> 3. Table Schemas: Gaping holes.

Anyway we can avoid putting arbitrary limits on the lengths
of text fields like account names & such? Currently gnucash
imposes no such limits and I think it would be good to keep
it that way. I know postgres has arbitrary length text fields,
but I don't know about others.

dave