price-db storage via BackEnd?

[Dave Peticolas]

On 21 May 2001 15:46:49 -0500, Rob Browning wrote:
> > I think the "automatically delete configuration when you delete the
> > data file" problem is a red herring. It really wouldn't be hard to
> > write a script to go through all the files in the config directory
> > and remove the ones that refer to non-existant files.  Do that when
> > you start gnucash & problem solved.
> 
> This seems really dangerous.  What if the volume in question isn't
> mounted?  What if the user has just "mv'ed" the file?

Ok, that's true.


> > I have several problems with storing configuration data in the data
> > file. First, configuration data is generally treated differently
> > than "real" data in applications. Configuration data is generally
> > saved automatically when you exit, and sometimes whenever you make a
> > change. That means saving configuration data should be relatively
> > fast. Storing it in the XML file means you have to save everything
> > just to save the config data.
> 
> To me, this is just an implementation detail, there's no reason we
> can't have a more DB like backend.  Even with XML, we could fix it up
> to have fast sectional re-writes, especially now that Jim has migrated
> us to be able to generate the tree piecemeal.

Are you sure this is possible? How do you just write a section
of data to a file when that section has a different length? I
thought you had to just rewrite the whole thing.

dave