Lack of Transaction List

[Christopher Browne]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:20:07 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as
"Phillip Shelton" <shelton@usq.edu.au>  said:
> > > Transactions aren't entered in the ledger.  In fact,
> > > there's no global
> > > way to get a list of transactions at all.
> 
> First, an apology for airing just how much I don't know about accounting and
> databases.
> 
> Question: Is the non-appearance of a list of transactions a gnucash
> limitation or a financial data limitation?

Call it a "database limitation."  :-)

The critical functionality has, thus far, been to associate splits with
ledgers; that is the critical "tie" that binds together the sets of
transactions.

As a result, transactions do exist, as _implicit_ things; right now
they merely aren't addressable in their own right.

Use a relational database that allows having the funky newfangled
feature known as the Foreign Key and you can look at transactions
directly in their own right; it makes perfect sense to attach the
information associated with each transaction in a Transaction table.
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