getbalance/getbalance '*' discrepancy #172

getbalance and getbalance '*' can return different amounts for 0-confirmation transactions, because of the way change transactions are counted. The discrepancy resolves as soon as the transaction is accepted into a block.

Details: CWalletTx::IsConfirmed() returns false for at least some 0-confirmation transactions loaded from a wallet, because they are missing vtxPrev (supporting transactions). That causes the issue, because getbalance (and the send methods) only count outputs of confirmed transactions as available, but GetAmounts (used by getbalance '*') assumes that change TxOuts are always available to be spent.

Do you know if there is any applicable workaround ?

I have a case where I imported a lot of private keys into a wallet, and there's starting to be a very significant discrepancy between what getbalance and what getbalance '*' report, I suspect that this issue might be somehow related as the difference increases with time and with transactions that are being sent...

Any help whatever small would be immensely appreciated !

Was fixed by #2272 a long time ago, closing