linking gnucash to data in postgres

[Joseph Mack]

Derek Atkins wrote:
> 

> An inventory subsystem is not an arbitrary set of tables..

I'm sure I have lots to learn here, but my inventory is a soccer player
(name, league, team, age, address...), coaches, referees, soccer fields,
all of which look an arbitary set of tables at the moment.

> When gnucash uses SQL the data is not XML; XML is the (current) file
> format. 

so the current format is XML and gnucash is going to postgres and is
not there yet (I'm at 1.4 and haven't kept up with all of this). 
I thought postgres was the current storage format and it was 
storing XML.

> SQL is a completely different storage format.  Yes, you can
> just SELECT on the gnucash tables..  But you're not "allowed" to
> UPDATE, INSERT, or DELETE.  I.e., only gnucash is allowed to
> manipulate its data, you're not allowed to modify it outside the
> gnucash interfaces -- you may break the invariants.

yes I understand there's contraints here :-)
 
> The gnucash schema is, however, semi-private..  You can
> reverse-engineer from the database, but don't expect that it wont
> change over time.

If someone wanted to add inventory tracking to gnucash, then presumably
it would be done cooperatively with you guys.
 
Thanks Joe

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Joseph Mack PhD, High Performance Computing & Scientific Visualization
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