On Jan 22, 2008 2:15 AM, Kevin Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is the table definition there to manually define data-types for SA, so > that it can generate valid SQL with the SQL abstraction syntax? or > does it do more.
Here is a good explanation of what the Table and Column definitions are used for: http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/04/metadata.html#metadata_tables > Would it be wrong for me to execute SQL statement directly at times, > even going so far as to not use SA's abstraction layer..? what would > be the disadvantages of this, other than the fact that Alchemy can not > apply its SQL database implementation changes to it? I am not real sure on this, but check this out, it might have the information you're looking for: http://www.sqlalchemy.org/docs/04/sqlexpression.html#sql_text --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
