Stock Quotes w/ SQL Backend

[Dave Peticolas]

On 15 Jul 2001 14:48:44 -0400, Michael T. Garrison Stuber wrote:
> I tried to send this yesterday, but it looks like it never made it.  Is 
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> Greetings!
> 
>    I've been trying to run GNUCash 1.6.1+  (Whatever the head of the 1.6 
> branch is) with the SQL backend.  I found an interesting bug.  With the SQL 
> backend I cannot save the fact that I want to retrieve on-line quotes.  I 
> can set "get online quotes" on and then retrieve the online quotes, but the 
> fact that I want them and the source is always gone the next time I login. 
> Is this a known bug/deficiency?  This is driving me nuts.  I'd be happy to 
> fix this, but before I do, is this something already addressed in 1.7?  I 
> note the note in the main Account.h that "the whole commodities 
> infrastructure is changing radically"  I also note that there doesn't seem 
> to be a database column for this flag in gncaccount or gnccommodity, though 
> maybe I'm looking the wrong place.  Before I get to spunky, does anybody 
> have some wisdom for me?

The information about stock quotes is stored in the account's kvp data.
The sql stores all the kvp data in separate tables. This bug points to
a possible bug in the sql backend.

dave