May be fastest and easiest way would be to first save sample data (say only 1 transaction) to say PostgreSQL database and then use pg_dump to dump it to text file.

Amish.


On Tuesday 10 April 2018 08:57 PM, Matthew Pounsett wrote:


On 8 April 2018 at 13:13, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us <mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us>> wrote:


    In the meantime there are four alternatives for custom reports:
    2. Learn SQL and use a SQL backend to extract the data you want.
    The results are generally amenable to import into a spreadsheet
    for further processing; you could also install the appropriate
    ODBC module for your SQL engine of choice and connect to it with
    Libre/OpenOffice, Microsoft Access, or some similar tool with a
    custom report writer or your favorite programming language’s SQL
    interface (e.g. DBAPI for Python).


Is there some clear documentation of the SQL schema somewhere?  I had a look through the gnc-*-sql.cpp files, but it's not the most transparent description of a database that I've ever read. :)   I was considering putting together a set of Python/SQLAlchemy classes that implement the object-data mapping, and would be happy to contribute it back to the project, if people thought that'd be useful.


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