GDA: possible problem

[David Reiser]

It will be a while yet. The gda enabling work is still in the early  
stages of testing. You wouldn't want to entrust live data to it yet.  
So unless you want to set up parallel gnucash instances and test data  
files, it will be some time yet before it makes sense to try what you  
ask.

Dave
On Jan 31, 2008, at 6:10 AM, Albert Lash wrote:

> That is wonderful to hear! Does that mean that I can open up a GnuCash
> storage file using the sqlite command line tool right off the bat? If
> not, what would be required to set up a SQLite database? This is good
> news to me.
>
> Albert
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> On Jan 30, 2008 8:38 PM, David Reiser <dbreiser at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 30, 2008, at 5:55 PM, Albert Lash wrote:
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>>> Just wanted to chime in here and mention that I'm also interested in
>>> using a SQL powered storage mechanism with GnuCash. Since GnuCash  
>>> is a
>>> desktop application, I was thinking SQLite might be a good  
>>> candidate.
>>> I think GnuCash has connected with Postgres and MySQL, but has  
>>> anyone
>>> ever tried SQLite?
>>>
>> SQLite is the default backend for libgda. The gnucash developer
>> working on the backend has tested more with sqlite than with mysql.
>>
>> I've tried a couple runs with sqlite. I had some self-inflicted
>> problems, but once those were cleared up I also ran into at least
>> painfully slow response times and possibly a bug or two. I have to  
>> try
>> a couple other things to make sure I haven't shot myself in the other
>> foot.
>>
>> Dave
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