accounting period

[Matthew Vanecek]

Linas is releasing Period-closing functionality to HEAD.  I imagine it
will be some time before that gets back-ported to 1.8.x.  It needs to be
sufficiently tested for bugs and correctness.  I've not yet tried using it
with a database (vs. a file), but have plans to do so quite soon.

It is only slightly less dangerous to delete from your database than to
delete from your file.  There are dependencies within the data that you
are missing with the deletes you've performed, and the results are not
guaranteed to be what you expected (as you've already seen).

At this point in time, with the 1.8.x branch, you cannot safely split the
database or file--you only option is to create a new one.  As I mentioned
above, Linas has implemented the change in HEAD, so it's only a matter of
time before that changes.

Hang in there, soldier; the cavalry is coming....

<quote who="Bernard FUENTES">
> Hi,
>
> I want to erase a great quantity of recordings to
> respect an account period. For this multi-delete, I
> use postgresql. However when I delete recordings
> concerned with:
>
> DELETE FROM gncTransaction WHERE date_posted BETWEEN '
> 01/01/02 ' AND ' 31/12/02 ';
>
> and
>
> DELETE FROM gncSplits WHERE transGuid IS NOT IN
> (SELECT transGuid FROM gncTransaction;);
>
> At this moment, the data, through the GUI, seem good.
> However, as soon as I safeguard them in format file of
> gnucash and I again open the file recently
> safeguarded: the data are incomplete.
>
> What do I have to make to be able to remove the one
> period recordings and to find my data with the
> standard format?
>
> Thanks.
>
> B. FUENTES
>
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