This indeed was happening. Thanks so much for helping understand. On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 12:25:49 PM UTC-8, Bill Thayer wrote: > > Perhaps check your controllers to see if an update call is being made. > Seems I had an app created with the wizard that added update code to the > controllers. > > On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 2:18:46 PM UTC-6, pumplerod wrote: >> >> I went through the admin interface and deleted from there. Then I went >> into my models/*.py files and made sure no _Archive tables were being >> created. >> When I go back through the admin interface I no longer see the _Auth >> tables. >> >> On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 11:59:03 AM UTC-8, Niphlod wrote: >>> >>> seems that web2py is trying to create those tables: how exactly did you >>> "delete" them ? >>> >>> On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 8:18:57 PM UTC+1, pumplerod wrote: >>>> >>>> I thought by deleting the _archive tables I would no longer be using >>>> it. However now when I try and submit a change to the db I get this error: >>>> >>>> table myTable_archive already exists >>>> >>>> >>>> I'm just trying to learn this system and I don't feel I really need to >>>> archive things just yet. getting rid of those tables just made things a >>>> lot cleaner for me but now I seem stuck. >>>> >>>> >>>>
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