[GNC] Auto commit with auto save?
David T.
sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Thu May 11 04:04:53 EDT 2023
As for missed threads, I've taken to opening the message queue on the mail server directly before I reply, just to be sure I'm replying with useful information...
David T.
On May 11, 2023, 07:20, at 07:20, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>David,
>
>I didn't notice when I replied, that this thread broke (at least for
>me)
>and there were more detailed replies.
>
>Now that I see what the OP was encountering, I agree, SQL won't be a
>solution for anything not committed.
>
>Other than this special case, I'm not sure it would be a good idea to
>auto-save uncommitted transactions. (especially if they don't balance
>yet) I'd hazard some folks rely on that current behavior.
>
>I do agree some sort of visual indication as to which open registers
>have uncommitted transactions would be helpful, as would the warning
>message being more specific to avoid a guessing game.
>
>And certainly, the OPs original goal might be better implemented within
>
>the GUI so as to avoid the issue entirely, as it seems the cron job is
>a
>work around. (thus it seems the problem isn't not auto-saving or
>auto-committing transactions on exit, but rather the lack of ability to
>
>schedule price updates)
>
>Regards,
>Adrien
>
>On 5/10/23 11:02 PM, David T. via gnucash-user wrote:
>> Adrien,
>>
>> The issue as stated is specifically the loss of an uncommitted
>transaction, so an SQL back end won't help with that. If, however, that
>open transaction prevents an entire session from being saved, then your
>suggestion merits attention. I personally don't know about that,
>though; the OP didn't mention.
>>
>> David T.
>
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