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?
>>
>

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