I'm getting an error when using a string as a query instead of an actual DAL-style query object. This used to work. My guess is that it broke around the time of this changeset which implemented "ignore_common_filters": ee791c9a6b9c<http://code.google.com/p/web2py/source/detail?path=/gluon/dal.py&r=ee791c9a6b9c987f22c5455c3d53594023d5a0f2>
File "/Users/pbreit/web2py/gluon/dal.py", line 1194, in _select if query and not query.ignore_common_filters: AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'ignore_common_filters' query"grouping!='test' AND status='active' AND title LIKE '%newer%'"query.ignore_common_filtersundefined My code looks something like this: query = "status='active'" rows = db(query).select(db.item.ALL) I'm using a string as a query in order to do a Postgres full text search.