If you perform

rows1 = db(db.a.b<10).select() | db(db.a.b>5).select()

This is all on the python level? Strictly to allow for joins on gae?

-Thadeus




On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:34 AM, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> As you know assuming:
>
>     db.define_table('a',Field('b','integer'))
>
> the following expressions do not work on gae:
>
>     rows1 = db((db.a.b<10)|(db.a.b>5)).select()
>     rows2 = db(db.a.b.belongs(2,3,4)).select()
>
> So with the latest code in trunk you can now do:
>
>     rows1 = db(db.a.b<10).select() | db(db.a.b>5).select()
>     rows2 = db(db.a.b==2).select() & db(db.a.b==3).select() & db
> (db.a.b==4).select()
>
> (the | will prevent duplicate records, the & will not and therefore is
> faster)
> of course this also works with relational databases although it is
> less efficient than the original expressions.
>
> I am also considering something like (not yet in trunk)
>
>     rows2 = (db(db.a.b==2).select() & db(db.a.b==3).select()).filter
> (query=..., orderby=...)
>
> To allow web2py level searching and re-sorting results from the
> database. It should be easy to implement as a method of class Rows in
> sql.py.
>
> Comments? Any help with this will be appreciated.
>
> Massimo
>
>
>
>
> >
>

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