DB design document

[David Merrill]

On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 05:43:57PM -0600, Rob Browning wrote:
> Jean-David Beyer <jdbeyer@exit109.com> writes:
> 
> At this point, as I've said, I now tend to think that we should just
> plan to handle encryption/authentication directly by having a
> server-side gnucash daemon.

I think so, too.

> > But even if one could, in confidence, pick one dbms and adopt it
> > without reservation, the discipline of building an API to separate
> > it from the rest of the application generally results in a cleaner,
> > more maintainable system.

The problem is the lack of available generic database interfaces.

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