Save As MySQL is crashing gnucash

[Geert Janssens]

On Saturday 27 November 2010, Ian X Waddington wrote:
> HI, whilst this is a fascinating discussion and I am sure useful for future
> development could I ask we get back on topic and help me find out why my
> installation of GnuCash simply crashes out when trying to save-as MySQL.
> 
> Either no one has 2.3.17 working with MySQL 5.1.53 on a Windows 7  32bit
> machine because there is a bug, or there is something wrong with my install
> or how I am going about it.
> 
The major problem in solving this issue is that none of the developers has a 
copy of Windows 7 available for debugging. So they have to go hunting based on 
the little information they get from the bug reports.

With the reports I have seen so far, it looks as if libdbi is not compatible 
with Windows 7. libdbi is the external code library GnuCash uses to connect to 
mysql.

But as I said, this is based only on the reports, I nor any other dev has had 
the opportunity to debug it on Windows 7 directly.

> Either way it shouldn't crash so I will report it as a bug.
> 
Please do. Can you add a link in your report to this bug:  
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624465

It seems to be the same problem, but on a 64bit version of Windows 7.

> Any pointers appreciated, just a small clue would help :-)
> 
I'm afraid I don't have any right now to get you up and running with mysql. 
Sorry.

Do you really *have* to use mysql ? The xml backend should be quite stable. If 
mysql is not a must for your setup, I would recommend to use xml.

I haven't seen any reports so far of connecting to postgresql (an alternative 
open source database) on Windows 7, neither success reports or failure 
reports. If you need a database, you may try if the postgresql integration 
works any better.

Geert