[Bug 611936] Sqlite3: assertion `gnc_numeric_check(amt) == GNC_ERROR_OK' failed

[Derek Atkins]

Christian Stimming <stimming at tuhh.de> writes:

> Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2011 schrieb Jeff Kletsky:
>> In my opinion, since this is an OS-distribution-related problem rather
>> than a core-to-the-library problem, spending a lot of valuable dev time
>> on "fixing" it seems inappropriate.
>> 
>> I would suggest something along the lines of testing for the library
>> bug, alerting the user if it exists (with a checkbox for "Don't tell me
>> again"), and disabling the SQLite3 option if it exists.
>
> Absolutely. My comment when reopening was intended to suggest we should add a 
> *detection* of this error, not necessarily fixing it. But currently an 
> increasing number of users "detect" this error by observing their data loss, 
> which is bad. Instead, we should add some code to ourselves to detect this 
> potential error at run-time (because libdbi can change by package managers at 
> will).

I agree.  We should implement a run-time test and display a dialog if we
detect this error (and argubly disable the SQLite backend).

> Regards,
>
> Christian

-derek

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