What the use of 'slots' table in gnucash with mysql

[Phil Longstaff]

Slots represent extra information attached to gnucash objects.  The idea is that a new or optional package can attach its own info to objects.  When an object is loaded, the slots are in a directory/subdirectory-like structure.

Slots are optional, and in both the XML and SQL backends, if new information is stored in slots, there is no need to update table or object version numbers.

Phil


________________________________
 From: Jorge Zapata <jorge.zapata at jazg.net>
To: gnucash-devel at gnucash.org 
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 3:12:15 PM
Subject: What the use of 'slots' table in gnucash with mysql
 
Hi, I'm developing a PHP web application and I want this app to read/write
into gnucash mysql database just like the program does. I have an idea what
is the goal of most of the tables but I simply don't what's the use of
slots table.
I activated a log in mysql server just to understand which insertions are
performed by gnucash in simple transactions and I've realized that every
insertion involves the slots table.
Can someone explain me what slots table does? If I don't want to consider
sots table in my application will that cause a problem when working with
the same database but using the program?

Thanks

-- 
*Ing. Jorge A. Zapata Guridi*
*Software Developer*
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