Question About Price DB

[Mike Alexander]

--On February 3, 2013 1:38:47 PM -0800 "David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> 
wrote:

> I am going through some VERY old mutual fund holdings I have, and I
> have noticed a behavior that appears odd to me.
>
> If I am entering a transaction into the register, my practice is to
> fill out the number of shares involved and a dollar amount. From
> those two data points, GnuCash calculates the share price, and I head
> happily on to something else.
>
> I would have expected that this transaction entry would have resulted
> in an entry into the Price DB for that commodity on the date of my
> transaction, but that doesn't appear to be the case.

I noticed this behavior when I was working on the interaction between 
exchange rate prompts and the price DB recently, but didn't fix it. 
I'll see if I can get it fixed, although I don't know if the fix will 
be suitable for the 2.4 branch.

            Mike