I'm confused, too!
Tables were created by web2py
yes, they are sqlite tables
This is important for me to resolve, so I'm going to spend some time
trying to reliably reproduce the problem in as few steps as possible.
Thanks again for the help, web2py is a truly impressive product and I
really want to make it work for this application.
Mike
On Jun 30, 7:57 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> Now I am confused. migrate=False is not an alterantive to migrate=True
> when the latter is not working.
>
> before you take any action:
>
> are you trying to access tables created by web2py?
> if yes, are these sqlite tables?
> if no, did you change username/password?
> if yes. let me know because your .table files got corrupted
> but they can be recoevered
> if no, migrate=False is the only choice. web2py cannot migrate
> preexisting tables.
>
> In all other cases... did you move the content of the databases
> folder? Did you rename any of the files in there?
>
> Massimo
>
> On Jun 30, 4:07 pm, MikeEllis <michael.f.el...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
>
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