Well, just removing the db.commit() made it work as well except that it doesn't populate the self referencing field.
if db(db.comment).count()<2: populate(db.comment, 30) On Monday, August 22, 2016 at 9:09:45 PM UTC-7, pbreit wrote: > > I fixed by specifying: > > if db(db.comment).count()<2: > import random > for i in range(1,20): > populate(db.comment, 1, contents={'parent_comment': i}) > db.commit() > > > > On Monday, August 22, 2016 at 8:47:48 PM UTC-7, pbreit wrote: >> >> Trying to populate: >> >> db.define_table('comment', >> Field('post_id', 'reference post'), >> Field('parent_comment', 'reference comment'), >> Field('body', 'text', requires=IS_NOT_EMPTY()), >> Field('votes', 'integer'), >> auth.signature) >> >> >> with: >> >> if db(db.comment).count()<2: >> populate(db.comment, 50) >> db.commit() >> >> but getting "IntegrityError: FOREIGN KEY constraint failed" unless I >> remove 'reference comment' >> >> Is gluon.contrib.populate able to seed a table with a self reference? >> > -- 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.