[GNC] pros/cons of storage formats

[Keith Keller]

On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 03:21:13AM +0000, David T. wrote:
> I'm not sure how you looked,  but this topic had been discussed for many years on the list. A recent one was https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2018-January/074315.html. Another was https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2013-September/050410.html.

Thanks David!  That January 2018 thread was helpful.  I'm not sure why
DDG didn't turn it up.  :(

My impression is that the format really doesn't make an appreciable
difference to performance, and that a SQL format might be more flexible
for reporting but otherwise the formats are basically interchangeable.
Does that sound like a reasonable summary?

I may simply stick with XML for now since it's easy and lazy.

--keith


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