GDA Missing records in SQLite

[Derek Atkins]

Graham Leggett <minfrin at sharp.fm> writes:

> We should be very careful of coding workarounds in gnucash to "fix"
> limitations in libgda. Time passes, libgda is fixed, and suddenly our
> "fix" becomes our bug.
>
> We should rather sanity check the backend when we start, to make sure
> that certain basic sane defaults are supported. For example, we might
> (and probably should) require prepared statement support. If prepared
> statement support is missing for that backend, that backend should be
> greyed out (with some hint to the user as to why).
>
> Then - as soon as libgda releases a backend that fits our
> requirements, gnucash suddenly supports that backend.
>
> This is significantly safer in the long term.

Except SQLite is a requirement.  If we can't support SQLite then
IMNSHO the project has failed.  So by that, if we have to make
a workaround to get SQLite working, we should.  Note that we can
always key the workaround code based on the version of gda we
find when we build gnucash.

> Regards,
> Graham

-derek

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