> On Dec 7, 2021, at 10:27 PM, Jeff <beastmaster...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > On 12/7/21 11:38 AM, john wrote: >> >>> On Dec 7, 2021, at 1:40 AM, Jeff <beastmaster...@hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Since GNC is based on XML and MySQL, how hard would it be to upgrade to >>> link the code to a MySQL database format for document saving (i.e.check >>> images) instead of just an XML hard link to a file? >>> >>> Even though there seems to be a limit on the number of transactions that >>> you can convert from XML to MySQL. 3 years works, 30 doesn't. I have 30+ >>> in my ledger and cannot get it to convert from XML to MySQL. My dad's only >>> has less than 4 years and converts fine to MySQL. >>> >>> Saving to an image file currently limits you to one drive and a specific >>> file. MySQL would allow saving to wherever the database of images exists >>> as a list of blobs. Hard drive upgrades would be much simpler. >>> >>> Again just curious. >> There is no programmatic limit in GnuCash on the number of transactions that >> GnuCash can store using the MySQL backend, so you're most likely hitting >> some limitation on the server side. You can run GnuCash with --log >> gnc.backend.sql=debug to get details of the insert queries and server error >> responses; combined with your MySQL logs you should be able to pretty >> quickly diagnose the problem. If you find that GnuCash's backend is doing >> something dumb please file a bug. >> >> As for document image links they're URIs so you can put them anywhere that >> you can access with a URI. A web server on your LAN is an easy to implement >> option. >> >> Regards, >> John Ralls >> >> . > > I understand the direct link to a file or URL but; how does one specify a URI?
URI means Uniform Resource Identifier, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier>. It's a more general term than URL, or Uniform Resource Locator. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
