GnuCash PostgreSQL support

[Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:31:23 -0800
John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Jan 27, 2012, at 7:48 AM, Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz wrote:
>>> 
>> What I would like to do is creating a few
>> more expense subcategories. For example, I have lumped all Household
>> expenses into Expenses.Household.
>> 
>> I'd like to refine this:
>> Expenses.Household.Heating
>> Expenses.Household.Food
>> Expenses.Household.Electricity
>> 
>> This would only require changing the guid of one <split:account>
>> element as far as I can see (based on my notes field).  
>Except that the running account balance is part of the split's state,
>and is maintained by xaccTransactionCommitEdit() and
>xaccSplitCommitEdit() in the Engine. If you change the account guid
>outside of the engine, the balances in the affected accounts will be
>messed up. Running Check and Repair *might* put them right, so you
>could try it on copy of your DB and see if it works out.

Is the balance stored in the file/DB? I didn't see it looking at my xml
file.

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Best Regards,
Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz