Setting up gnucash to use postgesql back end - close but no cigar ...

Maf. King maf at chilwell.net
Tue Mar 10 03:40:28 EDT 2015


On Tue 10 March 15 08:31:02 John Ralls wrote:
> > On Mar 9, 2015, at 10:01 PM, Maf. King <maf at chilwell.net> wrote:

> 
> Only XML does the versioned backup, because the whole file must be saved as
> one piece. SQLite3 is a real SQL database that happens to use a local file
> instead of a server and therefore requires no admin of the non-existant
> server. It saves each transaction as it happens and therefore there is no
> previous file to use as a backup. Consequently SQLite3 users are on their
> own when it comes to making backups. This is a non-problem on MacOS X as
> long as TimeMachine is enabled, but on other platforms it's up to the user
> to arrange for backups.
> 

Thanks John & Derek, I stand corrected. Sorry for the dis-info.

Maf.



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