postgresql specific backend support in GnuCash 2.2.9

[Derek Atkins]

Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> writes:

> On Saturday 20 February 2010, Anatoly Kirsanov wrote:
>> 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
>> 
> I can't tell for sure. There will be no guarantees for sure. None of the 
> developers is testing or maintaining that upgrade path. Just to be clear: the 
> old DB backend and the new have NOTHING in common. The new one is written from 
> scratch with no intention whatsoever to be compatible with the new DB backend.
>
> You will definitely not be able to work with the old DB backend now, upgrade 
> to a future release and then expect this new release to convert your database 
> from the old format to the new.
>
> Perhaps you may be able to export your old DB based data from the current 
> release, and import it again in a new release when you decide to migrate. But 
> I don't know if it works.

You could possibly File -> Save As to save your old data as XML and
then load that into 2.3/2.4 and then File -> Save As to store it into a
new Database.

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-derek

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