Chris,
On 2024-09-18 18:32, Chris Miller via gnucash-user wrote:
Is there support for database storage? I see reference to sqlite3,
PostgreSQL, and MySQL. Sqlite3 is obviously supported, since I can
simply save my content as sqlite3 in preference to XML, but I'd really
like to use either PostgreSQL or MySQL, because, that makes GnuCash
client server, and probably lets me run on distributed client machines.
If GnuCash can communicate with a database, it probably doesn't matter
where the database is.
What is the authoritative position for configuring database storage?
Where are the instructions about how to do it?
Have a look at the GnuCash "Tutorial and Concepts Guide"
<https://gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?rev=5&lang=C&doc=guide>. See
especially section 2.4. "Storing your financial data".
Since you mention "probably lets me run on distributed client machines",
take especial note of the warning,
Use of a SQL back end for storage implies to many that GnuCash has
fully implemented DBMS features, including multi-user and incremental
data manipulation. However, GnuCash does not currently implement these
features, although it is a long term goal of the development team.
In other words, if you have GnuCash store data in a database, GnuCash
reads all its data out of the database when it starts, and writes all
the data back when it stops. It does not write and commit each
transaction as it goes.
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