On Thursday, June 30, 2011 9:43:39 PM UTC-4, Nick Arnett wrote:
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> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> IS_NOT_IN_DB does take a DAL Set object as the first argument, so you can
>> limit the records checked to a particular set within the table (see
>> http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/07#Database-Validators). However,
>> I'm not quite sure what you're trying to do here.
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>> I think what he wants is the equivalent of Django's "unique together",
> which I'm also trying to figure out. IS_NOT_IN_DB seems to accomplish it,
> but is that going to create a unique index on the combined fields?
> Otherwise, it will be expensive to do inserts.
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I don't think web2py automatically creates any indexes -- see
http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/06#Indexes.
