Thanks Fran, that makes it much clearer. It would be nice if migrate=True worked as described in the manual, but I can live with migrate=False for the time being. Just have to make sure to get my table designs correct from the start (LOL). Cheers, Mike
On Jun 30, 4:52 pm, Fran <francisb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Jun 30, 4:57 pm, MikeEllis <michael.f.el...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > doesn't migrate=False prevent me from altering the > > table's structure within a running instance of web2py? > > Mostly correct - migrate=False means that Web2Py doesn't try to create > the Table, but assumes this exists already. > > > am I misunderstanding > > what migrate=False does? I'm assuming it means the table will be > > dropped with all its data and a new one will be created? > > No it won't drop the table/data - migrate=False simply means that only > Table Data not Structure is editable. > > F --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
