On 22 November 2010 16:18, Donald Allen <donaldcal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Derek Atkins <warl...@mit.edu> wrote: >> Phil, >> >> Phil Longstaff <plongst...@rogers.com> writes: >> >>> I will put some info on the wiki. Give me a day or so. >> >> I would prefer you didn't. If you supply instructions then that implies >> an implicit acceptance in the practice. I believe we should continue to >> have a hardline stance that we do not support modification of the >> database from under the GnuCash API. More below.. >> >> [...] > > While your position regarding someone writing random SQL code to > rearrange things in the database makes perfect sense to me, it would > still be great to have the schema/data model documented for those of > us who would like to do report generation and would thus be > transacting with the database on a read-only basis. The documentation > provided could state clearly the dangers you have discussed above that > are inherent in writing to the database outside the Gnucash API. If > someone chooses not to heed this sensible warning, then it's their > problem.
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