duplicate, answered on https://groups.google.com/d/msg/web2py/aIg2t3ZlyKY/dnU5YYOPAAAJ
On Tuesday, May 24, 2016 at 10:42:34 PM UTC+2, Matt Bee wrote: > > I have a table with a huge amount of records. There are aprox 3*10^6 > registers and counting. > > I need via scheduler delete the older registers, but the criteria of old > register is determined by a datetime field: > > db.define_table('foo', > Field('foo_file', 'upload', required=True, notnull=True, > autodelete=True, uploadseparate=True), > Field('foo_date', 'datetime', notnull=True)) > > Unfortunately there is no relation between id and date (the user/system > could put data older than the current date). > > The system has a controller which shows the lasts 10 registers with the > indicated criteria. But the query takes too much time, more than 7 > seconds just the query. I have also a periodically task archiving the > older registers. > > rows = db().select( orderby=~db.foo.foo_date, limitby=(0, 10)) > > I need a way in the DAL for indicating the foo_time datefile field > should be indexed or similar in order to get fastest queries! :/ I am > using mysql. > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > .::MAbeeTT::. > > mabeett [at] gmail [ dot] com > -- 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/d/optout.