using PostgreSQL

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Sun Jan 12 20:12:17 EST 2014


On Jan 12, 2014, at 2:38 PM, Christian Eichert <gnucash at zp1.net> wrote:

> Geert Janssens wrote:
>> On Sunday 12 January 2014 22:01:24 Per Johansson wrote:
>>> What about performance? It ought to be better using a database than an
>>> XML file.
>>> 
>> Performance in this case is similar. When you open your xml file or your postgresql database,
>> the whole file/database are loaded into memory and stays there until you close the
>> file/database again.
> In the end the software must work with outside databases.
> This is not only necessary to prevent data loss but also to allow multiuser mode.
> In multiuser mode its not possible to share a xml file.
> 

At present it’s not possible with SQL either. The internals require quite a bit of redesign before we can support multiple simultaneous users.

Regards,
John Ralls





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