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

Wm wm+gnc at tarrcity.demon.co.uk
Thu Mar 26 17:30:20 EDT 2015


Thu, 26 Mar 2015 19:56:04 <10127498.XJvmbnLtTf at legolas.kobaltwit.lan> 
Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>

>On Friday 13 March 2015 09:07:55 John Ralls wrote:

>> Unfortunately SQLite3 doesn't support decimals, only floats. SQLite3
>> is the only F/LOSS serverless SQL implementation, so being able to
>> use it is a hard requirement. We don't want to force the average user
>> to have to deal with setting up a MySql server just to run GnuCash.
>>
>How about embedded mariadb [1] ? Does that count as serverless ? I don't
>know much about it, so I don't know if that allows to create independent
>gnucash books (like separate files with sqlite).
>
>Geert
>
>[1] https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/embedded-mariadb-interface/

Doubt it. As I understand it MariaDB can embed the server as opposed to 
SQLite which is serverless.

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Wm...


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