My mistake was that I used db.post.ALL...with your advice, db.post.id I now get the correct response.
On 30 Oct 2017 9:50 PM, "Anthony" <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Perhaps the issue is not knowing how many records there are. Solvable by >>>> doing a count(), but then you're making two queries (to get the count, and >>>> then to get the records). >>>> >>> >>> If limitby(0, 10) followed by slicing off the last record via [:-1] gets >>> you the records you want, then so does limitby(0, 9) with no slicing, >>> regardless of the overall record count. >>> >>> Anthony >>> >> >> What you say is true, but I took limitby(0,10) to be a specific example, >> and that the general case was the real question, where you don't know how >> many records are involved. >> > > I don't see a "general case" related to this particular issue that would > require knowing the total record count (unless the general case is that the > database does not support *descending *orderby). > > 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/web2py/jOt3JLi8vJw/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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.
