[GNC] Sluggish after 5.13

[Sherlock]

Hi John,

I suspect the Windows nightly builds have not been properly supporting 
databases since libdbi was updated to 0.9.1 on October 5th unless the 
drivers are in the c:\libdbi\lib\dbd folder or the folder to which the 
GNC_DBD_DIR environment variable is set.

For example, attempt to save as sqlite3.

It appears there is a generic bug in gnc_module_init_backend_dbi() when 
HAVE_LIBDBI_R is defined.  Specifically, when the initial 
dbi_initialize_r() returns no drivers, the dbi_instance variable is 
still set.

So, instead of:

#if HAVE_LIBDBI_R
         if (dbi_instance)
             return;
#endif

the code should be:

#if HAVE_LIBDBI_R
         if (dbi_instance)
         {
             dbi_shutdown_r (dbi_instance);
             dbi_instance = nullptr;
         }
#endif


Regards,

Sherlock


On 10/28/25 4:21 PM, John Ralls wrote:
> I think that’s an info message you get when running GnuCash with the —debug flag: It’s just reporting that it couldn’t open your XML file with the sqlite3 backend.
> 
> To make sure I just tested the latest build with a SQLite3 file and it opened without complaint (and without any messages since I didn’t tell it —debug).
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>