[GNC] Database storage

[Chris Miller]

Hi Liz, 

> Looking at my 2 biggest data files with data from about 1990 for one
> and 1995 for the other
> 2.2 MiB (2351153 bytes)
> 1.5 MiB (1537242 bytes)

> and I don't notice any delays on using these files.
How many transactions do you suppose are saved? My personal case would be ten or fifteen a month, but the other use case could be two hundred. That would be five thousand in two years. That sound like a lot to me, for a flat file. Of course, he could read the file at start-up and index it in memory, which would minimize performance hits, but what about transactional integrity? I'm unaware how GnuCash is going to implement transactions outside of a database. 

Thanks for the help, 
-- 
Chris. 

V:916.799.9461 
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