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?
>>>>
>>>

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