Rogue currency exchange rate

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Tue Feb 19 14:47:09 EST 2008


Hi,

"Fred Bone" <Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com> writes:

> If I go into Price Editor and expand the entry under "Currency" for CHF, 
> I see a line showing "source: user:price-editor", "type: unknown" and 
> "price: 0.0000000".
>
> I could just delete this line, but I have a suspicion that somewhere 
> there's a transaction using it.

Transactions don't use pricedb entries.  Txns live all by themselves.
You can completely delete the pricedb and all your txns should still
remain perfectly valid.

> 1. What would be the effect of deleting an exchange rate that's linked to 
> some transaction?

None.

> 2. How can I either locate the affected transaction, or establish that 
> there isn't one?

Umm.. Good question.  I'm afraid I don't have a good answer.

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-derek

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