postgresql specific backend support in GnuCash 2.2.9

[Anatoly Kirsanov]

Geert, thank you :)  So if I will use old DB backend I will not able to
migrate my data to a new data base?

Anatoly

-----Original Message-----
From: Geert Janssens [mailto:janssens-geert at telenet.be] 
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 1:32 AM
To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Cc: Anatoly Kirsanov
Subject: Re: postgresql specific backend support in GnuCash 2.2.9

On Friday 19 February 2010, Anatoly Kirsanov wrote:
> I found in FAQ
> (http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_Is_the_Postgres_DB_.2F_SQL_backen
> d_sup p orted.3F) that stable release of GnuCAsh still support the old 
> DB  backend. But I did not found DB support in users menus :(
> 
> Docs does not help. I found some words about this topic only in 
> GnuCash 1.6 docs (http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v1.6/C/x2838.html).
> 
> How can I turn on db support in stable Windows release and what 
> version do  I need? Where can I download it? (There are only 2.0 
> downloads in http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/ :( )
> 
> Anatoly
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The old postgresql backend is disabled by default. You can only enable it if
you compile GnuCash from source. This is not a job for the faint of heart,
even more so on Windows.

Personally, I don't think it would be a good idea at present to try and do
something with the obsolete postgresql backend.

It's not maintained, so although it can still work with 2.2.x in theory,
this hasn't been tested. Also, there won't be an upgrade path from the old
backend to the newer ones coming in 2.4.

If you are really interested in a database backend, you can help us
stabilize the 2.3.x code, by downloading the 2.3.x releases, test them and
report any bugs you find. But IMPORTANT: don't use the 2.3.x series on any
data you value. Always work on a copy, you don't mind losing.

Geert