On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 04:34:12PM +0200, Thomas Spahni was heard to remark: > > I would like to see the SQL backend opened to allow a users choice for the > database package. My personal preference is MySQL.
someone needs to write a driver foir mysql and/or odbc it probably won't be me ... > I know that there was a discussion about using MySQL a long time ago but > in the meantime MySQL has got transactions (for certain table types) and > is extremely stable. Last I looked, postgres was factors of 2x-4x faster & doesn't have stability problems ... A naive port of the postgres backend might run into other troubles with mysql: the postgres backend uses stored proceedures to compute balance subtotals & some other miscellany; I don't think mysql supports stored proceedures (???) Of course, the mysql backend could handle balances differently, but that would require actually thinking (as opposed to a cut-n-paste of postgres->mysql api). --linas -- pub 1024D/01045933 2001-02-01 Linas Vepstas (Labas!) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key fingerprint = 8305 2521 6000 0B5E 8984 3F54 64A9 9A82 0104 5933 _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
