yep, I always forget to do a quick summary on my "warnings". Addition to my latest post
/******/ following the rule of "explicit is better than implicit" the last method shown is the best /******/ ^_^ On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 10:45:28 PM UTC+2, Anthony wrote: > > On Wednesday, May 28, 2014 4:26:28 PM UTC-4, Niphlod wrote: >> >> I'd also argue that it's a nice shortcut but you should ALWAYS select >> only what's needed. A select fetching 20 columns just to display the data >> from one column only will ALWAYS perform worse than a select fetching that >> only column. >> > > Yes, though the new method is useful even (and especially) if you only > select a single column, as it allows you to easily extract a list: > > mylist = db().select(db.mytable.myfield).column() > > 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/d/optout.
