sqlite file format, anyone?

[Derek Atkins]

Christopher Browne <gnucash at cbbrowne.com> writes:

> SQLLite is much lighter, at 442K, but I think people would be better off
> with Berkeley DB, which actually supports transactions, these days, and
> which is definitely lightweight instead of only being apparently so.

Berkeley doesn't provide a SQL interface.

> But consider: GnuCash has chosen to use GNOME libraries, in spite of
> there being some that might prefer KDE, and the mix of C/Guile, despite
> there being many that wish it were written in C++.  For there to be
> Another Executive Decision that the DBMS be PostgreSQL would hardly seem
> out of line.

Postgres doesn't have an embedded server.  For casual home users I
don't want to require setting up a Postgres infrastructure.  (note that
the motivation is to move to a database backend as the primary storage
mechanism, and relegate XML to an import/export format).

-derek
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