Hello, I may not understanding something... I am desapointed that I can't simply manipulate offset of the sql... Or should I just manipulate the limit...
I mean if I do repetitively thise query in sql : select * form table order by desc limit 10 offset 0 select * form table order by desc limit 10 offset 10 select * form table order by desc limit 10 offset 20 select * form table order by desc limit 10 offset 30 I will get progressively all the records from the table 10 at a time... But I can't simply do it with this query : rows = db((db.table.id > 0) ).select(db.table.id, db.table.represent_field, orderby=~db.table.id, limitby=(10, offset if offset else 0)) Reading the book there seems to have planty of backend that don't support paging with limit and offset properly... But still I find it frustrasting to have to struggle with the DAL and have to provide min and max for the offset to a limitby function which isn't a limit but an offset in reallity... I solve it with this : offset = request.vars.limit_by if offset not in ('None', '', None) and offset.isdigit(): offset = int(offset) min = offset - 10 max = offset else: offset = None min = 0 max = 10 rows = db((db.table.id > 0) ).select(db.table.id, db.table.represent_field, orderby=~db.table.id, limitby=(min, max)) Richard -- 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.