Re: DB design document

2000-12-14 Thread Roland Roberts
> "dp" == Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dp> Ok, I guess postgres's 'text' field (arbitrary length text) isn't very dp> common. That is too bad; I dislike putting limits on user-entered text dp> fields. No, but I think Oracle has a "LONG" type which is similar; perhap

Re: Locking (was Re: refreshing the GUI)

2000-12-14 Thread Roland Roberts
> "da" == Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: da> Locking is a challenging thing. You can't just depend on the da> filestore to lock data; what happens if you have something da> like looks like this: [...] da> What do you do? Presumably the DB can serialize (lock)

Re: DB design document

2000-12-14 Thread Roland Roberts
> "dp" == Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dp> Ok, I guess postgres's 'text' field (arbitrary length text) isn't very dp> common. That is too bad; I dislike putting limits on user-entered text dp> fields. No, but I think Oracle has a "LONG" type which is similar; perhap

Re: DB design document

2000-12-14 Thread Roland Roberts
> "dm" == David Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dm> On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 06:41:34PM -0800, Dave Peticolas wrote: >> David Merrill writes: >> > On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 12:08:24PM +1000, Phillip Shelton wrote: >> > > [...] >> > > Do we need to worry about transac

Re: String lengths in the SQL backend

2008-11-12 Thread Roland Roberts
Phil Longstaff wrote: > For those on the gnucash user list, a new SQL backend is in development. An > issue has arisen, and I need to get input from users, not just developers. > > Rolf Leggewie has run into some problems with the SQL backend > (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560165)

QIF Import Trouble

2000-04-04 Thread Roland Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I've been reviewing the archives on doing QIF imports trying to figure out why I'm having problems only to see that others doing imports from Quicken 98 seem to have it working. I'm trying to do an initial import of my Quicken data in order to migrate off Quick

Re: QIF Import Trouble

2000-04-06 Thread Roland Roberts
> "Bill" == Bill Gribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bill> - How many QIF files are you importing at once? Bill> - How many accounts does each file represent? Bill> - Are you checking the QIF Account field of the Files tab Bill> after clicking Load to make sure that the au

QIF import crash

2000-04-10 Thread Roland Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- After tediously adding 31 QIF files to the import list, checking the acount types and correcting a few, I started an import. I have a 4MB transaction log and gnucash exited with code 2, no core file. I was foolishing running something in the foreground that re

1.3.7 build error in po/

2000-05-16 Thread Roland Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I just pulled down the 1.3.7 SRPM and tried to build. I got the following in the po subdirectory: make: *** No rule to make target `en.gmo', needed by `all'. Stop. CATALOGS is set to en.gmo but I don't have a en.anything. I have en_GB.po roland - -

Mac Quicken 98 --> gnucash crash

2000-06-05 Thread Roland Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I dumped everything as one file from Quicken and tried to load it into gnucash 1.3.99. Here's what I got on the console: 998 roland> gnucash & [1] 9127 999 roland> This is a development version. It may or may not work. Report bugs and other problems to [EMA

Quicken98(Mac) -> gnucash import balance errors

2000-06-12 Thread Roland Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I pulled the version out of CVS Saturday evening (aroung 17:20 EDT). My import went just find until I started looking at balances. I have an account which, under Quicken, was "hidden" because it was closed and had a zero balance. Gnucash reported it as having

Re: Quicken98(Mac) -> gnucash import balance errors

2000-06-16 Thread Roland Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I'm still seeing this problem, but it has moved. Yesterday's CVS corrected the problem with one closed bank account, but another closed account now has a non-zero balance. I'll have to poke at the data to see what seems to be the problem. Further, our checkin

Re: Quicken98(Mac) -> gnucash import balance errors

2000-06-16 Thread Roland Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>>>> "Roland" == Roland Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Roland> I'm still seeing this problem, but it has moved. Roland> Yesterday's CVS corrected the problem with one closed bank Roland> acco

Re: cvs 2000-06-26

2000-06-26 Thread Roland Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- src/gnome/dialog-totd.c includes ; what version of gnome is required to get this? It's not part of redhat 6.1 roland - -- PGP Key ID: 66 BC 3B CD Roland B. Roberts, PhDUnix Software Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Types of reports required

2000-07-17 Thread Roland Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > "jr" == Jason Rennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jr> Is GNUCash multi-user? Won't different users store their jr> accounts in different directories and hence separate styles in jr> that way? I guess a business setting is a place where many