There are conditional models in web2py. Normal flow control statements can be used to reduce the number of definitions too.
2014/1/17 Anthony <[email protected]> > On Friday, January 17, 2014 10:01:35 AM UTC-5, Arnon Marcus wrote: >> >> I am trying to shave-off the needless DDL model definition in each >> request - when you have hundreds of tables with (cumulatively) thousands of >> fields, >> > > Are there requests where you need to use all or most of the database > tables, or do you typically need only a handful of tables in any given > request? If the latter, there is certainly no need to define all the tables > on every request. > > Anthony > > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

