Using an externally hosted postGreSQL as a gnu cash backend?

[John Ralls]

> On Apr 13, 2016, at 7:46 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> Michael Wagner <mikepwagner at mikepwagner.net> writes:
> 
> [snip]
>> I guess the real solution for this would be to tie gnucash more tightly to
>> the DB and rely on the DB's caching algorithms instead of loading the whole
>> thing into memory. That should eliminate the stale cache issues.
>> 
>> But I guess that would make the DB/XML file code even more divergent.
> 
> My understanding is that the plan is to read XML into an in-RAM SQL(ite)
> database, so the rest of the app would still be a "DB App", and then at
> the end it would take that and write out the XML at the end.
> 
> This would allow GnuCash to be a true DB App but maintain an XML file
> backend.

That is indeed the plan, but there's still a fair amount of rework needed in the SQL backend before it would make sense to do that.

Regards,
John Ralls