Postgres supports views and stored procedures. Assuming I can create a query statement to call a view or stored procedure, can't that query be passed to SQLFORM?
> On Apr 27, 2017, at 1:20 PM, Richard Vézina <[email protected]> > wrote: > > You surely can create a view, if you can, you can mimic one with > db.executesql() where you do your union, and then construct you grid with > web2py html HELPERS() or other means... Sadly you can use SQLFORM.grid() as > previously said but it not a big deal as you avoid convulated form processing > to maintain in sync an unionize entity which would be a pretty bad idea as if > you can't improve schema this probably mean your app is not the only system > accessing this database which may lead to an off sync unionize entity... > > Richard > >> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: >> Does your database support views/materialized views? >> >> Anthony >> >> >>> On Thursday, April 27, 2017 at 8:48:26 AM UTC-4, George D Elig wrote: >>> Unfortunately, I cannot combine the two tables. The existing product uses >>> one of them extensively for queue processing and I don't want to possibly >>> break any of that functionality. All I want to do is update the SQLFORM >>> with information from the new table. I can use db.executesql but won't that >>> require me to remove SQLFORM? If so, is there another framework element I >>> can leverage for displaying the rows? >>> >>>> On Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at 8:14:05 PM UTC-4, Alfonso Serra wrote: >>>> You can try: >>>> sql = """ >>>> SELECT * FROM table1 >>>> UNION SELECT * FROM table2""" >>>> >>>> rows = db.executesql(sql, fields = [ >>>> Field("name", "string") >>>> , Field("age", "integer") >>>> , Field("apt_time", "datetime") >>>> ]) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Always that both tables are the same size and types. >>>> Then style your view however you like. >>>> >>>> It is true the table structures are not good. Theres no need for 2 tables >>>> to store animals. just one with an animal type field to distinguish >>>> between cats, dogs, birds, etc. >>>> >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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 a topic in the Google > Groups "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/lnjK7nibOqw/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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.
