Null Account
Derek Atkins
warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Jul 21 23:06:28 EDT 2004
Ok... Look in your XML file for this account and see what it
is. The GUID should still match.
-derek
Perry Smith <pedz at easesoftware.net> writes:
> Not if I read the debug properly. It is a sub account of Fidelity
> Ultra. The DB insert statement has about 9 elements. The last two
> are parent GUID and GUID (going memory) and the parent GUID was the
> same as Fidelity Plus's GUID. Plus, it matched the other entry
> statements for the other non-null sub accounts of Fidelity Plus
> account.
>
> I'm trying to walk around the structures with gdb but I recompiled
> without optimization because things were weird.
>
> On Jul 21, 2004, at 9:49 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>
>> Oh, I bet it's from the creation of a "null" account for the top of
>> the account-tree.
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> Perry Smith <pedz at easesoftware.net> writes:
>>
>>> I'm working from 1.8.9 -- not the cvs tree (yet). Do you want me to
>>> move up to that level, see if it happens, and then get back to you?
>>>
>>> I looked in the xml file and found the same sub accounts that the
>>> gnucash accounts window reports. I looked in the xml as well for a
>>> null account name. Came up with nothing.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure how to reproduce this except send you my xml file which
>>> is 26M.
>>>
>>> On Jul 21, 2004, at 5:16 PM, Linas Vepstas wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 04:59:41PM -0500, Perry Smith was heard to
>>>> remark:
>>>>> I'm going to post this to user instead of devel because its more
>>>>> of a
>>>>> user question.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the process of trying to save my data to a postgres DB, it fails
>>>>> when it tries to create an account with an empty name. The db has
>>>>> been
>>>>> set up to error off in that case -- so it does.
>>>>>
>>>>> The account (parsing the info log) is a sub account of an account
>>>>> called "Fidelity Ultra". The account is in Quicken (which is where
>>>>> the
>>>>> data originally came from) and it is also in gnucash. And gnucash
>>>>> says
>>>>> the account has sub accounts but none of them have a null name.
>>>>>
>>>>> So... where to go from here?
>>>>
>>>> If you have some easy/reliable way of reproducing this, I could take
>>>> a look. I assume you are working with code out of the current CVS
>>>> tree,
>>>> right?
>>>>
>>>> -- linas
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> 5933
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>
>
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