After 10 days I've received no help on this. Is there something about the question that is inappropriate?
On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 11:44:43 AM UTC-4, Ian W. Scott wrote: > > I need to take an existing db and implement a UUID referencing system so > that I can sync local db's with a central remote version. But I'm concerned > that this will break reference fields that refer to the newly synced rows. > > My understanding is that the UUID field is necessary because a csv import > will assign different row ids to the new entries in the target db than the > ones they had in the source db (especially if new records have been added > to the target db in the meantime). The UUID is supposed to overcome this, > by allowing the db to recognize that rows are equivalent even if they have > different ids. But in that case, won't reference fields in other tables > often be pointing to the wrong ID number in the target db? (i.e., they'll > keep the row ID of the db version in which they were created, and if this > ID changes in the target db they will then be referencing a different > record.) > > Sorry if this explanation is overly complicated. I'm just trying to get > things clear in my own mind. > > Thanks > > -- 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 web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
