I understand the confusion. In SQLAlchemy for example people use .first() for fetch one record. In web2py the feching is by the select. .first() just gives you the fist of the records that were retrieved.
On Sunday, 2 September 2018 18:52:35 UTC-7, Anthony wrote: > > - my first attempt will be to try to add indexes in the post and answers >> Table on the field author. >> - secondly i will try to change this row >> >>> row = db(db.post.author== auth.user.id).select(db.post.id, db.post. >>> message, orderby=~db.post.id, limitby=(0,1)).first() >> >> to this >>> >>> row = db(db.post.author== auth.user.id).select(db.post.id, db.post. >>> message, orderby=~db.post.id).first() >> >> >> limitby ist not needed in that case. it is just my opinion. >> > > Why would you not use limitby? Without limitby, the database will return > every record in the table, and the the DAL will have to parse every record > and convert it to a Row object -- and then all of those Row objects will > simply be ignored, as only the first will be used in the code. > > 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 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.