Related postings not limited to date range when using effective dates?

IanTwenty

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Feb 26, 2025, 7:59:36 AMFeb 26

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Say I want to spread out my prize money so I don't spend it all at once:

2025/01/01 * PRIZE MONEY
Assets:Winnings £ 20.17 ; [=2025/01/01]
Income:Prizes £ -20.17 ; [=2025/01/01]
Assets:Winnings £ 20.17 ; [=2025/02/01]
Income:Prizes £ -20.17 ; [=2025/02/01]
Assets:Winnings £ 20.17 ; [=2025/03/01]
Income:Prizes £ -20.17 ; [=2025/03/01]
Assets:Winnings £ 20.17 ; [=2025/04/01]
Income:Prizes £ -20.17 ; [=2025/04/01]
Assets:Winnings £ 20.16 ; [=2025/05/01]
Income:Prizes £ -20.16 ; [=2025/05/01]
Assets:Winnings £ 20.16 ; [=2025/06/01]
Income:Prizes £ -20.16 ; [=2025/06/01]

Now I want to see where all my prize money went in January using --related:

ledger bal -f ledger.ldg Income:Prizes --begin "2025/01/01" --end "2025/02/01" --effective --related
£ 121.00 Assets:Winnings
£ -100.83 Income:Prizes
--------------------
£ 20.17

Why am I picking up future related postings? I would have expected to just see:

£ 20.17 Assets:Winnings

? Thanks

John Wiegley

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Feb 27, 2025, 6:11:03 PMFeb 27

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>>>>> "I" == IanTwenty <ian....@gmail.com> writes:

I> Now I want to see where all my prize money went in January using --related:

I> ledger bal -f ledger.ldg Income:Prizes --begin "2025/01/01" --end
I> "2025/02/01" --effective --related £ 121.00 Assets:Winnings
I> £ -100.83 Income:Prizes -------------------- £ 20.17

I> Why am I picking up future related postings?

It’s because your limit found postings in a given transaction, and --related
returns all the other postings in that transaction. It doesn’t apply the limit
a second time against that set.

Perhaps there is room here for a new option to specify whether limits should
also be considered in the function ‘related_posts::flush’ in the C++ code.

John

IanTwenty

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Mar 4, 2025, 8:33:10 AMMar 4

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Thanks, that makes sense.

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