[GNC] Transaction ordering on num field

[John Ralls]

> On Jun 15, 2021, at 4:43 PM, flywire <flywire0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> What "standard" are you referring to?
> 
>> GnuCash stores information at the highest level in files. A file can be
>> stored on your computer either as a single XML file (in all versions of
>> GnuCash), or in a SQL database (in GnuCash version 2.4 and higher).

That's just storage. Regardless of backend all of the data are loaded into C structs at the start of a session and all processing is done in C/C++ or Scheme on those structs. No database queries involved after the data are loaded.

That's also a strange usage of the word "standard".

> 
> The sort order of the application a user chooses to use to access the data.
> It's a database. Whatever is generally available to sort alphanumeric data
> in databases.

Sorry, that doesn't make sense.

Regards,
John Ralls