but there were no record to update. it should have created a record. as i said i created a rruid field in an existing table and the first time i run the update_or_insert the rruid field of all the records were empty.
Anyway i solved without update_or_insert... 2016-10-26 5:23 GMT+01:00 Anthony <[email protected]>: > On Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 5:12:39 PM UTC-4, Ramos wrote: >> >> Yes i added a new field to an existing table. >> So all of them became empty in that field. >> i then executed >> than i have another app that calls a controller in this app and passes >> some data in request.vars >> the controller in this app then does this >> id=db.empresa.update_or_insert(db.empresa.ruuid==request.var >> s.ruuid,empresa=entity,tipo='tr',ruuid=request.vars.uuid) >> and strangely when none of the rows still have that extra field written, >> it updates the first one with the lower id. >> I deleted that row and tried again. Again the next id was updated. >> > > .update_or_insert is for updated a *single* record -- if multiple records > match your query, it will only find and update the first one. > > Anthony > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
