[GNC] Automatic Price Updates

[David Carlson]

Is your price update so slow that you cannot wait for it to finish before
proceeding with other tasks?

Even when l immediately execute a File Save right after an update it only
takes ten or fifteen seconds or so, far more than the actual data download
time with my data file.




On Fri, Nov 25, 2022, 9:27 AM Michael or Penny Novack <
stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:

>
>
> >
> > I have noticed that when I have GC open interactively, I can start an
> > update in the price database window and let it run in the background
> > while I continue to work in the registers.
>
> Just an alert.
>
> When we say that while gnucash is safe for multiple sequential users but
> not for multiple simultaneous users this is not to be saying that "user"
> implies a human user. In the general case, a user could be a process.
> Look at what you are doing in those terms.
>
> Are you SURE that it is absolutely impossible that you would be doing
> anything while working in a register that would involve one of those
> prices that are being updated? Ignore that might be very low
> probability, never means never, because an error resulting from a
> "concurrent processing error" is not something the support team will be
> in a position to debug for you*.
>
> Michael D Novack
>
> * Exceedingly difficult to reproduce as timing critical. In other words,
> bugs of this sort are to be avoided rather than fixed. Do no concurrent
> processing unless the application is running under the control of a DBM
> (database manager)
>
>
>
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