2013/10/13 david.waldrop <david.wald...@gmail.com> > This worked perfectly. > Good!
> I am not sure why the sequence worked though. I thought once I had the > .table files created and if I then ran a migrate they would be created in > the database. but that obviously did not happen. Do you have time to > explain why this sequence worked? Thanks. > .tables files are used by DAL to see what is the last known state of the tables on the database compared to what is the required state in the models code. If DAL sees a difference a migration (i.e. a DDL SQL command) is issued and the new state is saved in the interested .tables files. As you can see there is not any attempt by the DAL to understand the state of the real tables on the database. DAL relies only on .table files. By absurd you could have an empty database without defined tables, but have copied all the databases dir from another machine: the DAL would firmly believe that all the tables defined in the model are already in the database. > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
