[GNC] Any performance improvement in GnuCash 5.x?

[Adrien Monteleone]

Lipp,

It's okay this one time, but please always use 'reply-all' or 
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Others might be able to help more than I, and everyone gets to benefit 
from following the discussion. (now, or in the future if they run into 
the same issues)

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As to your question on feature timing:

See the wiki, https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Roadmap, and 
https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Release_Schedule.

Note that some of those 6.0 goals were goals for 5.0 but are still 
works-in-progress.

Concerning PieCash, I saw a comment recently that it is quite aged and 
not maintained. Some 5.0 changes, I think, render it either not as 
useful, or not usable at all.

With respect to performance, I'm still thinking there is something in 
particular about your book that is at issue. Check the wiki about 
getting a Tracefile and running from the command line to see if there 
are any error messages. The devs likely want to know if you are getting 
that level of slowdown. A bug report might be in order as well. See this 
wiki section on various troubleshooting steps:

https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ#Troubleshooting_and_Improvements

Regards,
Adrien

On 5/1/23 6:07 PM, Lipp F. wrote:
> Hi Adrien,
>   
> I apologize for writing to you directly, but I couldn't figure out a way to reply to your message through the  gnucash mail list. It is in regard to https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-May/106758.html
> 
> I have indeed a high number of investment transactions. Between myself and my spouse, 8 investment accounts, more than 15 years history, on average 100 open positions daily. I actually stopped using GnuCash for tracking investments due to performance considerations one year ago and I've migrated to a more suitable platform.
> 
> I am wondering if you might know when SQL modernization could happen and, maybe you can give some tips on how to clean up all investment transactions from the database. I've tried using piecash, got some results but it was too time consuming.
> 
> Best regards.