2.3.1: How to specify a DB on the command line

[Phil Longstaff]

The general format of the datafile specification is:

type://arguments

similar to an http:// specification for a web URL.

If "type://" is not specified, it defaults to "file://".

Valid types are:
file:// - argument is file name.  Tries to open as sqlite3 (if --enable-dbi included and sqlite3 dbi driver is available), otherwise falls back to current xml format (which may be compressed).
sqlite3:// - argument is file name, type is sqlite3
xml:// - argument is file name, type is current xml format (may be compressed)
qsf:// - argument is file name, type is weird QSF XML format.  I know this exists for exporting (e.g. invoices), but I don't know how good support is for this.
mysql:// - argument is host:dbname:username:password
postgres:// - argument is host:dbname:username:password

Examples:
     my-file - opens my-file in current directory as sqlite3 file.  If it isn't a valid sqlite3 file, opens as current XML file format
     xml://my-file - opens my-file in current directory as current xml file format
     postgres://localhost:gnucash:myacct:mypasswd - opens postgres db on the local host.  Database name is gnucash.  Access account/password
are "myacct" and "mypasswd".

Phil



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From: David Goodenough <david.goodenough at linkchoose.co.uk>
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Sent: Monday, June 8, 2009 9:34:07 AM
Subject: 2.3.1: How to specify a DB on the command line

I notice that the command line allows me to specify the "datafile" that 
gnucash is to open.  Is there a form of this that would allow me to open
a database from the command line?

David
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