I agree with Yarko, let me add that if you are using a legacy database
with a 'bigint' field, you can use SQLField(...,'integer',...) and set
the table to migrate=False. It will work fine.
Massimo
On Dec 12, 3:12 pm, "Yarko Tymciurak" <yark...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well - you cannot use the BUT datatype portably.... you can set it up w/
> SQL;I think the point is understanding if you really need to...
>
> For example, if you're looking at legacy / existing database, and want to
> manipulate results, then yes you can - with work & SQL....
>
> But you cannot use BIG with DAL, but you can directly, and loose the DAL
> checks and validators (but write your own for that).
>
> If you want to write a new app and want to specifically use BIG, that's a
> different discussion...
>
> But - as Massimo pointed out - this is outside the "mainstream" of web2py
> application creation, since BIG is not a generally portable data type.
>
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:33 AM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> > SQLField('fielname','text')
> > SQLField('fielname','blob')
>
> > do not have size limitations on postgres. You cannot use the BIG
> > datatype because it has not equivalent on other databases.
>
> > Massimo
>
> > On Dec 12, 10:07 am, Iraklis <i.kordoma...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Dear web2py community!
>
> > > How I can use the big data type from Postgresql in web2py????
>
> > > Kind Regards
> > > Iraklis
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