Good hint, thanks, but anyway it's platform(sqlite) dependent. Also thanks to Niphlod to have confirmed the same thing. Sometimes never better choice.
On Saturday, May 31, 2014 3:23:44 AM UTC+7, Anthony wrote: > > Note, you can do: > > minus_5_min = 'DATETIME((writetime), "-5 minutes")' > row = db(db.mytable).select(minus_5_min).first() > print row[minus_5_min] > > Anthony > > On Thursday, May 29, 2014 11:49:06 PM UTC-4, Pham Quang Dung wrote: >> >> Hm, >> Not true, I forgot to say I did with execlsql OK, for Sqlite, >> select DATETIME((writetime), "-5 minutes") from xxx >> >> On Friday, May 30, 2014 2:35:42 AM UTC+7, Niphlod wrote: >>> >>> This will never work because there is no notion of "timedelta" in any db >>> backend (nor any substitute for it). >>> Calculate the result AFTER fetching the rows from the db. >>> >>> On Thursday, May 29, 2014 12:32:41 PM UTC+2, Pham Quang Dung wrote: >>>> >>>> I tried a query like *db().select(xx.writetime - timedelta(minutes=5)) >>>> *and the result was totally a surprise because it was of type "Int". >>>> Thoughts? >>>> >>> -- 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.

