Still no postgresql backend

[Derek Atkins]

Chris is not building the Postgres Backend for distribution
on the GnuCash site because the current (1.8) PG Backend is
not full-featured.  If you're not extremely careful you can
lose a lot of data or crash the application, especially
if you use Scheduled Transactions or any of the Business features.

So, Chris is waiting for the re-write to be finished before
actually distributing a pre-built PG Backend.

His opinion seems to be "damned if you do, damned if you don't"....
So he's playing it safe to keep user's data intact.

-derek

"Charles M. Gajan" <charlesgajan at earthlink.net> writes:

> I have seen the postgres-backend mention several times.  I have
> periodically searched the gnucash site for the rpm mentioned, but have
> never found it.  can anyone post a link?
> 
> thanks
> chas.
> 
> On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 12:50, Matthew Vanecek wrote:
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> > On 8 Mar 2003, R.S.Bhalla wrote:
> > 
> > > Dear All,
> > > I've still not managed to get the posgresql backend up. I can't find any
> > > readme or help file to help me along either (I've checked various
> > > versions of gnucash-backend-postgres). Would someone who has the backend
> > > working please tell me what to do.
> > > Thanks in anticipation,
> > > Ravi Bhalla
> > > 
> > 
> > What have you gotten accomplished so far? Do you have it installed?  Did 
> > you install from the RPM?  If so, here's the README:
> > 
> > me2v at reliant me2v $ rpm -ql gnucash-backend-postgres |grep README
> > /usr/share/doc/gnucash-backend-postgres-1.8.1/README.postgres
> > 
> > so it's there, unless you did a custom spec file. That assumes you're on 
> > an RPM-based (RH, really) system.  I can't vouch for other systems (e.g., 
> > Debian or Slackware).  There is, however, a README in the source tree, in 
> > src/backend/postgres, that is *supposed* to be installed by the packager 
> > (and it *is* installed on RedHat...).
> > 
> > If that doesn't help, please follow up with more specifics...
> > 
> > - -- 
> > Matthew Vanecek
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