GNUCash crash and recover

[Derek Atkins]

Well, the goal is to support both... postgres for external DB,
and embedded-mysql for the home user.  XML would go away
(be relegated to an interchange format to export your data
and then import it elsewhere).

-derek

Roland Roberts <roland at astrofoto.org> writes:

> >>>>> "Derek" == Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> writes:
> 
>     Derek> Not directly...  The current plan is to move to an
>     Derek> embedded-mysql backend and the default (instead of XML),
>     Derek> which gives provides your #2 option.. Basically, every
>     Derek> "commit" will save your data.
> 
> Hmmm, this sounds like it precludes one of the things I was really
> hoping for, namely multi-user ability.  I readily admit that's
> probably not a feature in high demand, but it would be so nice for my
> wife and I to be able to access GnuCash simultaneously---you'd be
> surprised at how often we both want to update our accounts at the same
> time (which is always in the late evening once the kids are asleep and
> we can finally catch up on non-kid stuff...).
> 
> The PostgreSQL backend supposedly would let me do that, but scheduled
> transactions don't work with that, right?  Would the external database
> connection go away once the embedded-mysql is included?
> 
> regards,
> 
> roland
> -- 
> 		       PGP Key ID: 66 BC 3B CD
> Roland B. Roberts, PhD                             RL Enterprises
> roland at rlenter.com                            6818 Madeline Court
> roland at astrofoto.org                           Brooklyn, NY 11220
> 
> _______________________________________________
> gnucash-user mailing list
> gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available