GDA spurious save dialog

[Daniel Espinosa]

2008/2/28, Mark Johnson <mrj001 at shaw.ca>:
> I see from the ChangeLogs and message traffic that the issues arising
>  from the missing SQL records have been dealt with.
>
>  I have patched and compiled libgda 3.0.2 with the following two patches:
>  1. Escaping of single quotes in strings is corrected.
>  2. the patch for the PostgreSQL provider returning "INSERT 0 1" on a
>  successful insert.
>
>  The svn log indicates that gnucash-gda no longer adds AUTO_INCREMENT
>  fields to make a primary key.  Therefore, the PostgreSQL SERIAL problem
>  should no longer be an issue for this project.

This problem was fixed on trunk, then you can use AUTO_INC again with
PostgreSQL to set SERIAL as the data type.

>
>  Phil has expanded the varchar fields to accomodate longer, but still
>  limited strings.
>
>  All the above makes it time to repeat my test of saving my data to the
>  three DBs.  So, as before, I opened three copies of gnucash, loaded 3
>  duplicate copies of my data, and saved to 3 different DBs.  The next
>  part is different from my previous test.  Due to the day of the month,
>  many of my scheduled transactions were created. I thought this was fine
>  as they would be the same in each instance, so I clicked OK.
>
>  Now, hours later, after the initial saves have completed, I come back to
>  compare the DBs.  First, I chose to exit the three copies of gnucash.
>  Each of them indicated that I need to save my data or else changes from
>  the last 10+ hours would be lost.  I assume this is related to the
>  scheduled transactions.  Now, all three copies are taking a very long
>  time to exit.  Since I can see postgres consuming cycles, it appears
>  that a save really is in progress.
>
>  Problems:
>  1. It takes far too long.  (I think it likely this will go away when 2
>  is dealt with.)  Gnucash appears (from the duration of the operation) to
>  be doing a complete save.  It will be tomorrow before I can check the
>  DBs for consistency.
>  2. The scheduled transactions were created on opening the data file,
>  prior to my selecting to save to a DB.  Therefore, no further saving
>  should have been necessary.
>
>  I did not try creating any transactions manually, but I would expect
>  them to be immediately saved to the DB, and not to ever see this dialog
>  on exit when using a DB backend.
>
>  Mark
>
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