Solved: It was a dumb mistake.. I was trying to group by a field in the left join table.. so of course it was eliminating all records not found in the second table. I switched the group by to a first table field and all is well.
Final working query was: foo = db(db.benchmark_targets.benchmark == for_benchmark.id).select(db.benchmark_targets.ALL, db.lobby_report.ALL, left=db.lobby_report.on(db.lobby_report.KPID == db.benchmark_targets.KPID), orderby=~db.lobby_report.datetime, groupby=db.benchmark_targets.KPID) Hours in front of a screen stumped me, but I go for a drive and the solution occurs to me instantly. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.