Preventing unbounded file growth

[Derek Atkins]

M Prindle <mprindle at pobox.com> writes:

> At this point I don't see much of an issue of the file sizes getting
> out of hand.  I started using GNUCash at the start of '09 so I now
> have 1.25 years or so worth of data.  This includes several checking
> and savings account, plus all of our small business stuff.  The
> compressed file size is 183k.  In the future when the next stable
> version is released it will be database driven so the file size pretty
> much a moot point since the time to save and open pretty much goes
> away with the XML file.

Actually, the time to open is still O(n).  We still read in the whole
data file, even from SQL.

Hopefully that will change after 2.4, but in 2.4 it's still a while.

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-derek

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