Re: [web2py] Re: Advice please: best way to count records?

2012-02-10 Thread Richard Vézina
Done : Issue 655 http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/detail?id=655:Adding cache argument to .count() Richard On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Massimo Di Pierro massimo.dipie...@gmail.com wrote: open a ticket. this should be added On Feb 9, 11:42 am, Richard Vézina

[web2py] Re: Advice please: best way to count records?

2012-02-09 Thread Niphlod
The two methods you described are the only available methods to achieve such a thing. If you have 100 records returned and you want to paginate by 20 (5 pages), then the difference between one method or the other is negligible. If you have 1000 records returned and you want to paginate by 20

[web2py] Re: Advice please: best way to count records?

2012-02-09 Thread Anthony
Would another option be to cache the entire select and pull out the needed records based on the page requested: records = db(db.pages.active==True).select(cache=(cache.ram, 300)) I suppose that wouldn't be a good idea if there are likely to be enough records and/or enough simultaneous users

[web2py] Re: Advice please: best way to count records?

2012-02-09 Thread Anthony
I can think of two ways to do it, but I don't like either one. First is to formulate the query without the limitby clause and do a db(query).count(). That would give me the total number of records in the set. Then add the limitby clause to the query to get the records of interest.

Re: [web2py] Re: Advice please: best way to count records?

2012-02-09 Thread Richard Vézina
Is it just me ? db(query).count(cache=(cache.ram, 60)) Won't work... I get : TypeError: count() got an unexpected keyword argument 'cache' Richard On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Anthony abasta...@gmail.com wrote: I can think of two ways to do it, but I don't like either one. First is to

Re: [web2py] Re: Advice please: best way to count records?

2012-02-09 Thread Richard Vézina
Under web2py 1.99.4 Richard On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Richard Vézina ml.richard.vez...@gmail.com wrote: Is it just me ? db(query).count(cache=(cache.ram, 60)) Won't work... I get : TypeError: count() got an unexpected keyword argument 'cache' Richard On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at

Re: [web2py] Re: Advice please: best way to count records?

2012-02-09 Thread Anthony
I don't think a count can be cached that way, but since it just returns a number, it can be cached in the usual way instead: count = cache.ram('count', lambda: db(query).count(), time_expire=60) Anthony On Thursday, February 9, 2012 12:42:02 PM UTC-5, Richard wrote: Is it just me ?

Re: [web2py] Re: Advice please: best way to count records?

2012-02-09 Thread Richard Vézina
I just check gluon/dal.py and if it is the count() code location it's not have cache argument... Also I notice that there seems to have many differents implementations of count... I wouder why it could not be a generic function reused everywhere, it would be more DRY... Richard On Thu, Feb 9,

[web2py] Re: Advice please: best way to count records?

2012-02-09 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
open a ticket. this should be added On Feb 9, 11:42 am, Richard Vézina ml.richard.vez...@gmail.com wrote: Is it just me ? db(query).count(cache=(cache.ram, 60)) Won't work... I get : TypeError: count() got an unexpected keyword argument 'cache' Richard On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at

[web2py] Re: Advice please: best way to count records?

2012-02-08 Thread Cliff
Thanks Richard. Not heavy use sites as they are business to business or management tool sites. On Feb 8, 5:31 pm, Richard Vézina ml.richard.vez...@gmail.com wrote: If your query don't involve joins, why not making to request to database? If you don't have a heavy load site I don't think you