Re: future of LedgerSMB

[Seneca Cunningham <..hidden..>]

On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 02:41:58PM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Seneca,
> 
> > There is a GL table, it's just that hardly anything uses it, prefering
> > to add up the other tables and storing its values in the acc_trans
> > table.  One of my test instances has an entry in it from when I told the
> > system that it was the year end.
> 
> Right.  In a standard accounting database app, there's a central transactions 
> table that stores an analog of classic double-entry ledger records.  This has 
> a lot of value in preventing errors from unbalancing your books.
> 
> acc_trans does some of this, but not for all transactions.  I've not been able 
> to figure out when it's used and when it's not.

Heh.  Can't help much there at the moment, I'm still trying to work out
what happened to the global sequence on a couple of my test instances 
that caused them to no longer successfully insert transactions.

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Seneca
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