SQL Woes under 1.6

[Michael T. Garrison Stuber]

The SQL backend for GNUCash is driving me batty.  I'm running GNUCash 1.6.1 
against PostgresSQL 7.0.3.  I continue to face two problems:

1).  The SQL Backend consistently losses my settings for getting stock 
quotes.  It appears that the setting for this is stored via the KVPFrame as 
a string setting with the key "old-price-source".  Is this correct?  Is 
anyone else having these problems?  What did you do to work around them?

2).  The performance is abysmal.  Any suggestions on what I can tune, or 
why it might be so awful?  I've got a PIII-733 w/ 384MB of RAM.  You'd 
think it would do the job okay.

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Michael T. Garrison Stuber