gnucash and Postgresql

[Mark Johnson]

Derek Atkins wrote:

> 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  :)
>
What is the form of this support?  It doesn't seem to be under active 
development.

The project is shown as still being in beta.  Suppose we run into a 
bug?  Will it get fixed?  Will we have to fix it ourselves?  Do we want 
to base a backend on beta software?  Do you feel it is sufficiently 
stable/debugged to be used despite that beta label?

Mark