Any way to correct the running total of shares?

[Graham P Davis]

On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 10:41:53 -0500
Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Graham P Davis <hacker at scarlet-jade.com> writes:
> 
> > I've looked in the Guide but haven't yet found a mention that if one
> > deletes an entry from the accounts display, one should also remove
> > it from the Price Editor.
> >
> > Is this behaving as it should and, if so, is there a warning in the
> > Guide that I've missed? If this is not the correct behaviour,
> > should I raise a bug report?
> >
> >
> > As to zero-pricing, that was a misunderstanding of the system on my
> > part and I think I've got a way round that. If I want more help on
> > that, I'll raise it separately.  
> 
> The PriceDB and Register are only loosly linked.  The register will
> read from the PriceDB to suggest an exchange rate (or price), and it
> will enter a price in the PriceDB if one does not already exist for
> the day. However as you notice it will never remove data from the
> PriceDB.  Part of the reason is that even if you delete the
> transaction it cannot know for sure that there isn't ANOTHER
> transaction somewhere also using the same PriceDB entry.  Moreover,
> there is not a direct link from the transaction that caused the
> PriceDB entry to be created.
> 
> So basically what you are seeing is a feature, not a bug.
> 

Thanks, Derek, for clearing that up for me. Do you think it's worth
adding something about this behaviour to the Guide? Of course, it could
be there already and I just missed it; happens a lot to me.


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