Change storage format of existing data

[Mike or Penny Novack]

On 1/28/2017 3:27 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   Earlier this month I created my GnuCash personal bookkeeping using the
> default gzipped .xml format. I would like to change that to use a 
> postgres
> database called 'gc-personal'.
>
>   Pages 18-19 of the Users Guide appears to apply to only new files; 
> when I
> select 'Save as' from the Files menu I'm presented with the same data
> directory and no choice of format.
>
>   Please point me to a reference on changing data formats from .xml to
> postgres. As the DBA I have full access to version-9.6.1 here.

That's very strange. When I select "save as" I see at the top of that 
box a place where I can select format. And while it has a default path 
of the current directory, I can click on a box of that path to "back 
off", or for that matter, use the "places" menu to the left.

Michael