Issue #349: docs: not clear how to run stored query (blais/beancount)

[Martin Michlmayr]

New issue 349: docs: not clear how to run stored query
https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/issues/349/docs-not-clear-how-to-run-stored-query

Martin Michlmayr:

The documentation on beancount syntax has a section "Query" which described how to define stored queries. It says:

> Each query has a name, which will probably be used to invoke its running as a report type.

From this, it's not clear to me how to actually run a query.

In the end I figured out that it's "run query". Maybe this can be clarified.

[Jonathan Salles]

I had trouble determining how to run queries too.  I'm not sure how I came to use it, but

bean-query jfsgms.bean < queries/iracontrib.qry

works for me.  Using run and adding quotes complains about the slash for the subdirectory.

[Martin Michlmayr]

* Jonathan Salles <jfs...@gmail.com> [2019-04-18 17:54]:

> I had trouble determining how to run queries too. I'm not sure how I came
> to use it, but
> bean-query jfsgms.bean < queries/iracontrib.qry

That's not a stored query though.

A stored query is when you store a query in your beancount file, e.g.

2099-12-31 query "foo" "select *"

And then you can do:

bean-query 2019.beancount 'run foo'

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Martin Michlmayr
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[Jonathan Salles]

Thanks Martin,

I guess I missed that.  I guess either way is a good way to save and run queries.