On Friday, October 31, 2014 5:10:24 PM UTC-4, Leonel Câmara wrote: > > It feels completely unnatural to me to just ask the DAL for fields. >
Then how in web2py would you best represent the following? SELECT name FROM person It seems to me that db().select(db.person.name) is the closest you can get. db(db.person).select(db.person.name) is a shortcut for db(db.person.id > 0).select(db.person.name), which translates to "SELECT name FROM person WHERE person.id > 0", which is not quite the same as the above SQL statement. Anthony -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- 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/d/optout.
