Why not make it Field('date_updated', 'datetime', default=request.now, 
update=request.now) and then search on date_updated only?

On Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 9:04:21 AM UTC-4, lyn2py wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> If I have 2 columns, date_created, date_updated
>
> db.define_table('table', 
>     Field('date_created', 'datetime',default=request.now),
>     Field('date_updated', 'datetime',update=request.now),
> )
>
> and I want to do a DAL query to get the datetime that is the furthest from 
> now (i.e. the db entry is the oldest) on both the date_created and 
> date_updated. I know how to do it if it's just one column by following the 
> example here 
> (http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/06/the-database-abstraction-layer#sum--avg--min--max-and-len),
>  
> but how should I do this if two columns are involved?
>
>
>

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