Re: Register stuff (summary of Carol and my talk).

2000-10-24 Thread Patrick Spinler
ransaction to maintain the > balance. We need to work on a different way to handle this. > -- This message does not represent the policies or positions of the Mayo Foundation or its subsidiaries. Patrick Spinler emai

Re: Offtopic, database design; Was: Re: Get PostgreSQL installed as part of the distros

2000-10-30 Thread Patrick Spinler
stead of the primary, and thus be smaller and easier to do periodic maintainance on it. -- This message does not represent the policies or positions of the Mayo Foundation or its subsidiaries. Patrick Spinler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mayo F

Re: Proposed Inventory plan (very unofficial long draft)

2000-11-27 Thread Patrick Spinler
or personal users, please consider making such subsystems a module or compile option. -- Pat -- This message does not represent the policies or positions of the Mayo Foundation or its subsidiaries. Patrick Spinler email: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

2000-12-07 Thread Patrick Spinler
nating. -- Pat -- This message does not represent the policies or positions of the Mayo Foundation or its subsidiaries. Patrick Spinler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mayo Foundation phone: 507/284-9485 __

Re: Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

2000-12-07 Thread Patrick Spinler
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Re: Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

2000-12-07 Thread Patrick Spinler
now would certainly be useful, IMHO, down the road > when we move to a DBMS. As I mention above, I disagree. -- Pat -- This message does not represent the policies or positions of the Mayo Foundation or its subsidiaries. Patrick Spinler emai

Re: Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

2000-12-08 Thread Patrick Spinler
e SQL required types and treat the SQL name as an alias. Finally, the database files are binary incompatible, of course. -- Pat -- This message does not represent the policies or positions of the Mayo Foundation or its subsidiaries. Patrick Spinler

Re: Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

2000-12-07 Thread Patrick Spinler
ount_tree); > > You're not making an extensible format, you're changing the format > of the data. > > -derek > > Patrick Spinler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ayup - snipped from the postgresql manual: > > > > Name > > > &

Re: Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

2000-12-08 Thread Patrick Spinler
^ +-- between different rdbm's -- This message does not represent the policies or positions of the Mayo Foundation or its subsidiaries. Patrick Spinler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mayo Founda

Re: Schema

2000-12-13 Thread Patrick Spinler
e people on this list are talking about using an embedded or "sandboxed" database that would be under complete control of the application, and transparent to the user. -- Pat -- This message does not represent the policies or positions of the Mayo Foundation

Re: DB design document

2000-12-14 Thread Patrick Spinler
eallocate space in the record. This means some wastage of data storage, but you get a lot of positive performance boosts because of it. -- Pat -- This message does not represent the policies or positions of the Mayo Foundation or its subsidiaries. Patrick Spinler

Re: DB design document

2000-12-13 Thread Patrick Spinler
select that includes both the base table and it's children. -- Pat -- This message does not represent the policies or positions of the Mayo Foundation or its subsidiaries. Patrick Spinler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mayo Foundat

Re: DB design document

2000-12-15 Thread Patrick Spinler
lly studied postgres, I'll be interested to hear what that db does ! -- Pat -- This message does not represent the policies or positions of the Mayo Foundation or its subsidiaries. Patrick Spinler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mayo Foundation

Re: DB design document

2000-12-15 Thread Patrick Spinler
David Merrill wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 09:54:44AM -0600, Patrick Spinler wrote: > > In short, if you plan on having updatable data, use varchar() columns, > > for which most databases preallocate space in the record. This means > > some wastage of data stora

Re: DB design document

2000-12-15 Thread Patrick Spinler
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Re: Schema

2000-12-13 Thread Patrick Spinler
ositions of the Mayo Foundation or its subsidiaries. Patrick Spinler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mayo Foundation phone: 507/284-9485 ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: DB design document

2000-12-18 Thread Patrick Spinler
ne before. > -- from The Charge of the Goddess, Doreen Valiente > > ___ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel -- This message does not represent th

Re: DB design document

2000-12-20 Thread Patrick Spinler
essing Board (SIPB) >URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH >[EMAIL PROTECTED]PGP key available > > ___ > gnucash-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.gnumat

Re: client-server

2000-12-21 Thread Patrick Spinler
rfect sense to me. -- Pat -- This message does not represent the policies or positions of the Mayo Foundation or its subsidiaries. Patrick Spinler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mayo Foundation phone: 507/284-9485 _

Re: Regression tests?

2001-02-01 Thread Patrick Spinler
I believe a few people on the wine-devel list have looked at doing this, but I don't recall what, if anything, they produced. To the best of my knowledge, there is no other free software effort available for testing GUI applications. A simplistic idea would work something like this: *) Start

War story: installing gnucash 1.2.3 on stock redhat 6.0

1999-08-21 Thread Patrick Spinler
Hi: I thought it might be useful to talk about my experience installing gnucash 1.2.3 on my stock redhat 6.0 box at home. Especially since redhat is getting more popular, and lots of people have it. I wanted to install as much of the necessary software as possible in rpm format, to make it eas

Crash report: gnucash 1.2.3 on stock redhat 6.0

1999-08-21 Thread Patrick Spinler
Hi: Here's a crash report. gnucash-1.2.3, stock redhat 6.0. Lesstif 0.88.1. All the rest of my versions are in my prior mail message re: installing. :-) How to reproduce: Create an account nested to 3 layers deep. Eg: Bank accounts + Bank name + Checking account + Savings a

Crash report: gnucash 1.2.3 - creating subaccount

1999-08-21 Thread Patrick Spinler
Hi: Another crash report. gnucash-1.2.3, stock redhat 6.0. Lesstif 0.88.1. All the rest of my versions are in my prior mail message re: installing. :-) How to reproduce: This crash manifests while creating subaccounts: Start gnucash without specifying an account file, in order to have a

GnuCash Source RPM SPEC

1999-10-14 Thread Patrick Spinler
Rich Pinkall-Pollei wrote: > > Pat, > > I'd be interested in your gnucash source RPM for RH6.x. If you want, > all I need is the SPEC file and patches; I can get the rest via FTP. > Here you are. Fair warning to all - I have _not_ read the rpm spec file documentation. This is patched togeth

SQL backend

1999-11-09 Thread Patrick Spinler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'll agree with cbbrowne in his statements that SQL more or less requires > a DBA. As an old technology invented in the pre-unix, pre-windows world, > it has a different idea about data management than what we're used to. Maybe. I'd say it depends on the data store

Re: Java implementation

1999-11-09 Thread Patrick Spinler
Christopher Browne wrote: > The situation is worsened when there isn't anyone to be a DBA; the DBMSes > that are available on Linux are largely not all that "management free." I have to bow to your knowledge here. I've not yet worked extensively in any of the free linux db's. Just downloaded po

SQL implementation thoughts

1999-11-09 Thread Patrick Spinler
Hi: Just because it sounded interesting to do - I started to take a look at what it'd require to convert gnucash from saving it's data in files to saving it's data in a database. Here's my thoughts. First, some comments and questions on the code in general (looking at src/engine/FileIO.c): *