It very much depends on how periods work... You may need to change a bunch of pointers for transactions that were listed in the "current" period but need to get moved into the "new" period...
However I acknowledge that this doesn't happen frequently (once a month? once a quarter?). -derek "Derek Neighbors" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Derek Atkins said: > > I can certainly imagine wanting to lock multiple tables if you are > > performing the "end of period" closing.. > > I am not sure I would use table locks to close periods. Generally a flag > of sorts gets processed saying a period is closed, preventing any further > transactions against said period. I wouldn't see it necessary to lock the > tables. > > Derek Neighbors > > -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel