The DAL will do the join for you on a reference field. You should be
able to do:

comments = db(db.post_comment.post_id==request.args(0)).select()
for c in comments:
    print c.comment_by.username,c.comment


I don't think this works on GAE

On Feb 9, 11:19 pm, minh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have something along the lines of
>
> db.define_table('post',
>   ...)
>
> db.define_table('post_comment',
>    Field('post_id', db.post),
>    Field('comment_by', db.auth_user),
>    Field('comment', 'text')
>
> I'm trying to list the comments along with the author's name. However,
> I'm having problems joining the tables. How could I do this with the
> DAL?
>
> Thank you.

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