File store (was Re: Salutations)

[Phillip J Shelton]

Sorry to be dense.  Isn't there some way to have the DB store the current
balance with each record? That way the  current balence would just be the
current balence from the last record.

Or is that more expensive than I realise?

Phill


"Al B. Snell" wrote:

> That was one of three proposals :-)
>
> The third proposal was to keep all the old data, but to guarantee that the
> balances of all accounts bar the special "carrying" equity account go to
> zero at the period boundary, so a search for the current balance (adding
> up all splits on an account) need only go back to that checkpoint