File store (was Re: Salutations)

[Phillip J Shelton]

Derek Atkins wrote:

> David Merrill <dmerrill@lupercalia.net> writes:
>
> > aisb, I consider the issue of closing the books and making all
> > transactions prior to that immutable to be completely orthogonal to how
> > the running total is determined. I am proposing a solution to the
> > maintenance of running balances that scales well.

I agree.

> Let me give an example...  You have 1000 transactions a day, so you do
> daily checkpoints.

And going back to the table, if you do daily checkpoints then you get one
record per day. Is date good enough to allow you to do a checkpoint every
500 transactions? In this case you would have two records per day.  i.e.
does date include the time?