the new DAL, possibly out by the end of the month will take care of these situations
On Jun 18, 10:12 pm, samwyse <[email protected]> wrote: > There are two possibilities. First, use names that contain an > underscore. AFAIK, there aren't any reserved words that have them. > Second, SQL has some special quoting rules; character constants are > supposed to be enclosed in single quotes, names may be enclosed in > double quotes. In the latter case, the names may contain reserved > words, embedded spaces, even non-alphanumeric characters. I've seen > code generators that enclose all names in double quotes, whether > needed or not. I'm sure that web2py could be patched to do this as > well. > > On Jun 18, 8:03 pm, Richard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > hi, > > > I like to develop my web2py apps with sqlite and then migrate to mysql > > or postgres later. I often then find that some of the table or field > > names are reserved in the new database, which requires lots of > > renames. > > > Does anyone have a strategy for dealing with this? > > Does there perhaps exist a list of words that are reserved in at least > > one database? If so, perhaps this could be somehow incorporated into > > web2py to make switching between databases more seamless. > > > Richard --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

