queries on mysql

[Colin Law]

On 22 November 2010 16:18, Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>> Phil,
>>
>> Phil Longstaff <plongstaff at rogers.com> writes:
>>
>>> I will put some info on the wiki.  Give me a day or so.
>>
>> I would prefer you didn't.  If you supply instructions then that implies
>> an implicit acceptance in the practice.  I believe we should continue to
>> have a hardline stance that we do not support modification of the
>> database from under the GnuCash API.  More below..
>>
>> [...]
>
> While your position regarding someone writing random SQL code to
> rearrange things in the database makes perfect sense to me, it would
> still be great to have the schema/data model documented for those of
> us who would like to do report generation and would thus be
> transacting with the database on a read-only basis. The documentation
> provided could state clearly the dangers you have discussed above that
> are inherent in writing to the database outside the Gnucash API. If
> someone chooses not to heed this sensible warning, then it's their
> problem.

+1

Colin