sqlite file format, anyone?

[Herbert Thoma]

Derek Atkins schrieb:
> > What's flawed with it?
> 
> well, it requires stored procedures for one (which means it's not
> portable).  It's hairy.  It's easy to mess up.  It's confusing.
> 
> See, if we had real Period support then we could just call Periods the
> checkpoint.  Yes, you would have to pull in all transactions since the
> last period, but even for large organizations that wont be a lot.
> Even at quarterly periods with 100 transactions a day, you would have to
> pull in at most 91000 transactions.
> 
> > You don't need checkpointing for small systems, but if you've go an
> > account with  tens of thousands of transactions, or more, in it, I think
> > you need it.
> 
> Get period support in there and checkpointing falls out of there ;)

I think I agree with Derek here.

> > > Speaking of which -- how goes the Lot interface and Periods?  Any
> > > progress?
> >
> > No progress. I think about it every now and then ... I really need to
> > get some features into gnotime, that's where I've been working.
> 
> *prod prod* Lots of users are waiting for it...  And then this
> discussion would be relatively moot....

Oh yes please. I do not need SQL storage, I don't have a multiuser
application, but I really would like to record my stock losses the
right way ... 

 Herbert.

> > --linas
> 
> -derek
> 
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