mysql server has an error, broken or wrong data.

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

On Sat, July 9, 2011 8:55 am, Zhang Weiwu, Beijing wrote:
> On 07/09/2011 08:28 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:
>> I was just informing you that it does work on other systems.
>
> Of 2.4.7 on other systems, here is my findings:
>
> Windows 2000 fail with an DLL error, google says it's because it assumed
> Windows_XP's DLL file.

This is correct, we only support Windows XP an above.  We don't support
Win2k, and haven't for a very long time.

> Windows XP doesn't offer postgresql "save-as" option. If anyone has
> postgresql on XP please kindly offer hints like what other tool you have
> installed before installing gnucash 2.4.7.

It should.  There is a PGSQL library included in the build.  If it's not
working then this would be a bug.

> MacOS: before I try to install, I read the "ReadMe" file. The first line
> of 2.4.7's read me file reads "MacOSX/2.4.6/Readme" which must be a
> mistake. Readme says:
>
>
>       * The only libdbi module included is for SQLite. If you need either
>         the MySQL or Postgresql modules, you will have to build them
>         yourself and install them into
>         Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/lib/dbd. For instructions, see
>         MacOSX/Quartz.
>
>
> Linux: no binary offered for any Linux distribution (at least I didn't
> find any), compile from source not an option for luser like me :-)

Most distributions include GnuCash.  What Distro did you try?  You can
generally just do:

  yum install gnucash
or
  apt-get install gnucash

Then you would need to install the sqlite, mysql, and pgsql DBD package as
well in order to get the SQL backend to "turn on".  Again, these are
precompiled packages provided by the distribution, for a luser like you. 
:)

> Can anyone who worked with posgresql come up and hint about what OS
> distribution you used? Thanks a lot in advance!
>
> Best regards
> Zhang Weiwu
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-derek



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