gnucash and Postgresql

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Mark Johnson <mrj001 at shaw.ca>:

> Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>> Quoting Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net>:
>>
>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 10:27:54PM +0200, Klaus Dahlke wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear all,
>>>> could someone shed a light on what will happen to the sql-backend? I
>>>> found it quite helpful (especially for some reporting), but if I am
>>>> right, creating a database is not maintained any longer and I have
>>>> read somewhere that the sql-backend should be abundant.
>>>>
>>> I think you mean is "abandoned".  That's correct.  It will probably
>>> disappear in some future release.
>>>
>>
>> Hopefully it will be replaced by a libdbi backend so we can get PG, MySQL,
>> and SQLite support.  Someone want to volunteer to do this work?
>>
> This piqued my curiousity so I looked at the libdbi homepage at Source Forge:
> http://libdbi.sourceforge.net/
>
> It looks like a very low activity project. The last "news" is from 
> November 2005. The newest file in the "src" subdirectory of its CVS 
> is 2 months old. It is currently in beta, and at this rate, doesn't 
> look like it will ever get to a release.
>
> I wouldn't recommend basing a backend upon something that does not 
> appear to be supported. Or have I missed a more active project 
> location on the web?

Just because there hasn't been a release in a while doesn't mean it isn't
supported.  Libdbi has been released for a very long time.  Years.  It
was available even before gnucash 1.8.0 was released!   Keep in mind that
gnucash looked the same for a long time  :)

> Mark

-derek

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