I do not think we need an option. We need to re-factor Auth.define_tables. When we do they will behave as other tables (lazy or not). When we rewrite it, we could add the options for the string format as you suggest.
On Monday, 20 August 2012 08:53:56 UTC-5, Anthony wrote: > > On Monday, August 20, 2012 12:46:26 AM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: >> >> True but auth_* tables are never lazy if DAL(...lazy_tables=True) >> > > Yes, that's not the case now, but couldn't we add a lazy tables option to > Auth as well -- e.g., auth.define_tables(lazy=True)? I think we would just > have to move a few validators directly into the Field() definitions, no? > Most requests don't actually need to access the Auth tables, so this could > speed things up. > > Anthony > --
