Gnucash file is getting long!

Adam Funk a24061 at ducksburg.com
Thu Jun 15 09:34:19 EDT 2017


On 2017-06-15, Derek Atkins wrote:

> 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.

Great!  Thanks to you & Colin for that information.



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