Gnucash versions

David Ryder dnryder at btinternet.com
Fri Oct 7 02:15:44 EDT 2011


On 06/10/11 15:09, John Ralls wrote:
> On Oct 6, 2011, at 5:27 AM, David Ryder wrote:
>
>> Thanks for this insight.
>>
>> Does this mean that if we don't convert to sql but stay in XML format, our books are interchangeable with 2.2.9-5? If so, it gives us newbies a 'backup' if we have 2.2.9-5 on another machine.
>>
>> David
>>
>> On 06/10/11 09:25, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
>>> I'll just note that unless you explicitly installed the lib-dbi backend for a supported database package (mysql, sqlite, postgresql), created a database in the database engine, and then saved your gnucash data in the database format, then you are probably still using the default XML data format. And that is probably just as well. At this time, there is little gained by converting over to the SQL version; several discussions over the last year or so have underscored this.
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> Yes, that's correct: The XML files interoperate with Gnucash-2.2.9.
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> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
Apologies for the subject error.

Thank you for the lib-dbi info.
My (original) question then is extended to, what are the benefits of 
converting to a sql database?

Regards
David


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