Thank you very much Anthony. That is exactly what I was looking for.
When I started this project, I read the first few chapters, but then "dived in". I must have missed the thread part. On Tuesday, May 15, 2012 6:46:33 PM UTC-4, Anthony wrote: > > I guess one of the things I am unclear on is how granular the Web2Py >> framework is. Is there one db.py running for all sessions or is there a >> db.py running for each user session? >> >> If a db.py runs for for each user session independent of the other users, >> then customizing the DAL setup in the db.py should work. >> >> I wish there were more thorough documentation of the DAL. >> > > I think the DAL is fairly well documented. This isn't really a question > about the DAL, though, but about the workflow of requests coming into a > web2py application. It might help if you review > http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/1#Model-View-Controller and > http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/4#Workflow. > > Note, the db.py file is freshly executed (in a separate thread) for each > request that comes into the application. So, you can dynamically determine > the database URI for a given request, and it will only apply to that > particular request. > > Anthony >
