[web2py] Re: checking if table exists in database

2010-06-15 Thread Yarko Tymciurak
The first question you might answer is: how would you do this without web2py? What are your steps? Then, you can ask - how does web2py get into this, and what web2py facilities (if any) do something like this? A few observations: If you 'create' a web2py table definition for an existing table,

[web2py] Re: checking if table exists in database

2010-06-15 Thread mika
so what I can do if I have database already created? I would like simply to connect db and see if tables exists... by the way, metadata used by web2py to recognize tables created by itself is working only on sqlite, or on other db also? On Jun 11, 3:46 pm, mdipierro wrote: > if you set migrate=T

[web2py] Re: checking if table exists in database

2010-06-11 Thread mdipierro
if you set migrate=True web2py does the check for you and eventually creates tables. It can only detect tables if they were created by web2py itself since it uses metadata for that purpose. On Jun 11, 7:25 am, mika wrote: > hi i would like to make my application generate database at startup > (st