[gnome-devel-docs] programming-guidelines: Compare GOM and GVDB to GDA

[Philip Withnall <pwithnall src gnome org>]

commit 74ab6319e7679939b4801d9afcb05ea4fff5d088
Author: Philip Withnall <philip withnall collabora co uk>
Date:   Tue Aug 2 18:39:30 2016 +0100

    programming-guidelines: Compare GOM and GVDB to GDA
    
    We don’t recommend use of GDA for storing user data, unless the whole
    point of the program is to access databases.
    
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768849

 programming-guidelines/C/databases.page |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/programming-guidelines/C/databases.page b/programming-guidelines/C/databases.page
index cdfda42..58f69f8 100644
--- a/programming-guidelines/C/databases.page
+++ b/programming-guidelines/C/databases.page
@@ -82,6 +82,15 @@
       article</link> on vacuuming for more information; please consider it
       before choosing to use GOM.
     </p>
+
+    <p>
+      GNOME has another database library: GNOME Data Access (GDA). This is
+      targeted at abstracting access to various types of relational database,
+      for use in a database utility program or office program, for example. It
+      is not suitable for storing
+      <link href="https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/GSettings.html";>user
+      settings</link>.
+    </p>
   </section>
 
   <section id="gom">