Gnucash file is getting long!

Derek Atkins derek at ihtfp.com
Thu Jun 15 09:11:29 EDT 2017


Adam,

On Thu, June 15, 2017 8:29 am, Adam Funk wrote:
> On 2017-06-14, Colin Law wrote:
>
>> Hopefully, thanks to the hard work of the developers, within just a
>> few years the full database functionality will be implemented and
>> load/save should be very much improved.
>
> Is this going to involve a database server?  I strongly prefer the way
> GnuCash stores everything in one directory that I can pack up into one
> file & back up easily.

Not necessarily.  The "default" backend would be SQLite, which is a DB
that stores into a single file.  So it will act like the current XML
backend in terms of storage, but not necessarily the same with backup
files.  However no server is required.

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-derek

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