This was a bug. I sent a patch [1] and it was applied. It's in trunk and will be in next version launch.
[1] https://github.com/web2py/web2py/pull/352 On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Jayadevan M <[email protected]> wrote: > In our system with some data in the tables, I added to db.py: > db._common_fields.append(auth.signature) > This added the requisite columns. But When I try to edit the records from > appadmin, I get the error "value not in database" for the signature columns. > So I go to psql and update all the "signature" columns to some user id. Is > that how it is supposed to be done? Can't we make those columns NULLable? In > fact, they are NULLable if I look at the table definition from psql.What is > happening when I do it from appadmin? > > -- > 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.

