Still no postgresql backend

[Charles M. Gajan]

thank you.

chas

On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 15:11, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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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