Thanks to everyone for the help! It was as you expected, I was trying to create (and manipulate) the database using the browser-based shell. I switched to the command line shell and it worked fine. It would be great to see Kevin's proposed changes to the browser-based shell, or at least a mention of this in chapter 6.
- [web2py] DAL not working in shell Nosnam
- [web2py] Re: DAL not working in shell DenesL
- [web2py] Re: DAL not working in shell Kevin Ivarsen
- [web2py] Re: DAL not working in shell Kevin Ivarsen
- [web2py] Re: DAL not working in shell ron_m
- [web2py] Re: DAL not working in shell ron_m
- [web2py] Re: DAL not working in shell Nosnam
- [web2py] Re: DAL not working in shell Nosnam

