I'm storing latitude/longitude coordinates in a geometry field (using 
PostgreSQL 
9.1.10):

Field('point', 'geometry()')

I understand there is also the geography type but from my reading geometry 
is faster and is suitable for small distances (
http://workshops.boundlessgeo.com/postgis-intro/geography.html#why-not-use-geography
)

I want users to be able to specify a reference point and search for all 
records within X distance from the reference point.  Using raw SQL I would 
use  ST_DWithin <http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/ST_DWithin.html> doing 
something like

SELECT name, ST_AsText(point)
FROM mytable
WHERE ST_DWithin(point, ST_GeomFromText('POINT(40.47112 -76.33)',4326), 0.1)

But web2py does not seem to support ST_DWithin only st_within.  So how can 
I achieve a similar result in web2py?

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