Hello! Long time no see: I have a Field 'parameters' of type "list:integer", something like:
db.define_table('operation', Field('type', 'integer'), Field('parameters','list:integer') ) The Field db.operation.parameters has a method 'contains' that I can use in queries, like in db(db.operation.parameters.contains(5)) The generated sql uses "LIKE '%|5|%'" (it also uses ESCAPE, though I don't understand why). For example, In: db(db.operation.parameters.contains(5))._count() Out: "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `operation` WHERE (LOWER(`operation`.`parameters`) LIKE '%|5|%' ESCAPE '\\');" But I would like to specify that number 5 must be in the first position, for instance. I guess there is no hope in Google App Engine NoSQL and the like, but I only need to work with relational databases. The sql could go like: SELECT COUNT(*) FROM `operation` WHERE (SUBSTR(`operation`.`parameters`,1,3) = '|5|'); And my questions: - Is there "an obvious way to do it" (maybe more than one :-/ )? - I have checked with pydal that the order of the integers is respected in insert, but can I trust that behaviour? Regards -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/web2py/a3948b05-1f68-46b4-9422-29edbe1a578d%40googlegroups.com.