Talk:BlobStore

> What does this add beyond a ton of code and several levels of indirection? John Ralls (talk) 16:04, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

It will allow gnucash to "ingest" pdfs away from the user, providing convenient easily backed storage. IMV the url/filepath are fragile, liable for the user messing up datapaths. If the user sees BlobStore and a ton of opaque uuid pdfs they are less likely to interfere.

IMV the spec should be modified; the main .gnucash is unchanged.

All the metadata in a separate sqlite3 file, and all the blobs in a child folder.

~/accounting/ ├── MyBook.gnucash # Book file - unchanged schema ├── MyBook.blobs/ # Per-book blob directory (sibling) │ ├── blobs.sqlite # Metadata database │ ├── a1/ │ │ ├── a1b2c3d4e5f6...pdf │ │ └── a1f7g8h9i0j1...jpg │ ├── b2/ │ └── ff/ │ └── ffa1b2c3d4e5...png