Some of you have missed Mirek's point, and he has a very valid one. The problem is circular references. There are ways around it but no elegant solution yet.
There was discussion some time ago about lazy evaluation of tables. I also would like to see this solved in web2py. Denes. On Nov 11, 10:36 am, Mirek Zvolský <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Here's a link to the section in the book: > >>http://www.web2py.com/book/default/chapter/06#Self-Reference-and-Aliases > > Yes, I know this, and from that reason I always use 'reference..' > style syntax. > > However this is about very special foreign keys, which targets to same > table (to the primary key in same table). > > And if there is some cycle in joins in the model (and of course it > always is, except of very, very simple models), this will not help. > And there is realy no solution for this in web2py ??
