OK, So is using a database faster? Stable? Any advantages?
Worth the effort to participate in testing and development? James On 08/29/17 22:00, David T. wrote: > The biggest problem with the database back end is users' misconception > that its use implies database functionality. They think it will allow > them to perform database actions on the data set, as well as have > multiple users simultaneously. As you know, neither of these is true at > this time. > > David > > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 1:04, Colin Law > <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 29 August 2017 at 19:12, D <sunfis...@yahoo.com > <mailto:sunfis...@yahoo.com>> wrote: > > ... > > The database back end is stable, and has been for a while now. > There is > > nothing to prevent a user from making use of it, even for production. > > OK, but note the OP is going to use 2.6.15, which was released in Dec > 2016 I believe. I don't know whether there have been any significant > sql related bugs since then. > > Even if not, then it cannot be denied that the xml backend has had > vastly more use than the sql backend. Certainly anyone using a db > should make sure they take regular backups of the db (which can be > trickier than just copying the xml file). > > > Colin > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
