What is wrong with the default id field that web2py creates for every
table?

On May 27, 3:16 pm, matclab <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>  I'm finding this message in a thread from February...
>
>  I thought that autoincremented field would guaranty unicity in the
> table.
>  I'm afraid the provided solution would allow two record to have the
> same autonumber field (think about an access from two users at the
> same time).
>  I guess the autoincrement should be done on the DAL or database side,
> inside a transaction....
>
>  What do you think about it ?
>
> On 19 jan, 21:38, Thadeus Burgess <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > max_id=   db(db.table.autonumber>1).select(db.table.autonumber,  #
> > select all records, and only pull the autonumber column
> >                                 orderby=~db.table.autonumber, #
> > descending sort on the autonumber, (highest first)
> >                                 limitby=(0,1) # limit the query and
> > only select the first record
> >                         ).first().autonumber # pull the first record
> > from the web2py rows object, and get its autonumber member
>
> > db.table.autonumber.default = max_id + 1 # Set the table default as
> > the last autonumber and incremented by one.
> > db.table.autonumber.writable = False
>
> > form = crud.create(db.table)
>
> > -Thadeus
>
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:32 AM, ceriox <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > thanks for the reply but i'm not a good web2py programmer ... i
> > > writing my first real app
> > > you can write the code for my request? (i can't understand the post of
> > > your link)
>
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