recovery

[Derek Atkins]

"Keith A. Milner" <kamilner at superlative.org> writes:

> Musing: perhaps there is some benefit in bundling a local, lightweight 
> database such as SQLite with Gnucash as a backend instead of the current XML 
> one, with the option to change this to PostgreSQL for users who want this. 
> Obviously this would require full support of the current business features as 
> well.

The gda-dev branch is attempting to do this.  The goal is to get
it working on SQLite, Mysql, and PG, and then migrate the file backend
from XML to SQLite as the default.

Of course, it's still a work-in-progress and still has a long was to
go before it's usable.  Then we need proper migration tools and such.

> Of course, this is easily stated but requires a lot of work to achieve. 
> Unfortunately with my current workload I won't have time to devote to this.

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-derek

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