Yes. try... except... should not contain database queries because if the db raises an exception you cannot ignore it, you need to rollback.
On Monday, 19 May 2014 02:45:13 UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi > > I would like to propose the following edit to isempty() in gluon.dal as I > believe this would improve performance particularly for tables with > numerous fields: > > > def isempty(self): > try: > return not self.select('id', limitby=(0, 1),orderby_on_limitby > =False) > except: > return not self.select(limit=(0, 1), orderby_on_limitby=False) > > > Are there any drawbacks? > > > Tan > > > -- 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/d/optout.

