An old thread - but I seem to have some problems using 'rowid' as id.
The statement Field('rowid', 'id') causes the error: <type
'exceptions.SyntaxError'> invalid table/column name "rowid" is a "ALL"
reserved SQL/NOSQL keyword
What could I be possibly doing wrong? (I tried rowid in lower as well as
upper case)
Thanks.
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On Monday, July 15, 2013 at 4:35:03 AM UTC+5:30, Woody wrote:
>
> This may be something that is known by people with more experience than
> me, but it took me a lot of experimenting to figure it out, so I thought I
> would post it here so others will find it.
>
> I have legacy sqlite tables that do not have an id field. This makes it
> difficult to update them using SQLFORM.
>
> ROWID is a hidden auto-increment integer field that's included in all
> sqlite tables. You can make ROWID explicit by declaring it as the first
> field in a table definition, then you can assign it the 'id' alias.
>
> Here's an example:
>
> db.define_table('my_sqlite_table',
> Field('ROWID', 'id'),
> Field('some_field', 'string'),
> Field('some_other_field', 'integer'),
> ........
> migrate=False)
>
> You can then use 'id' as a field name just as if your table had an actual
> id field defined in the underlying table. As far as I can tell, this hack
> works without any problems. The use of the 'id' alias is documented, but
> I haven't seen the use of 'ROWID' with the alias discussed. This might be
> something that could be tested and added to the documentation.
>
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