Hey Guys, I'm having trouble with DAL, as I already have existing tables in the database. I keep on getting the error: Table exists. How do I get around this so the DAL just accepts that the table is there and creates a new file in the database folder. It seems a bit restrictive when it comes to the database as the db is usually quite morphic as more fields or tables are added as time goes by. Would this be a problem when you start scaling?
I've also put the flag migration=True in the define_table method. I read the chapter in the book and still it doesn't seem to want to do it. If you could give me a scenario on how you would do this with web2py that would be great. So you have a database which is pre-existing and you put in all the define_tables methods for the tables how do use get web2py to do a if not table exists tablename and then creates the *.table files Cheers, Rhys
