I took a shot at explaining the current behavior at the end of the Migrations section in the book: http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/06#Migrations Feel free to suggest changes. Anthony
On Monday, March 28, 2011 1:12:09 PM UTC-4, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > I am looking at the source code right now. Currently this does not > override the behavior of individual define_table(s). It just provides > the default behavior in case a migrate argument is not passed. Since > this is undocumented bahviour it can be changed and, the more I think > about it, the more I feel it should be changed and DAL(migrate) should > override define_table(migrate) > > > > > On Mar 28, 11:45 am, Anthony <abas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Massimo, > > > > What is the exact behavior of DAL(..., migrate=False)? Does setting > > 'migrate' in the DAL connection always override the 'migrate' arguments > in > > the individual table definitions associated with that connection? For > > example, if you have db=DAL(..., migrate=True), will that cause migration > of > > all tables, even if some of the table definitions explicitly set > > 'migrate=False'? How does this work? I'd like to mention DAL(..., > > migrate=False) in the Migrations section of the book, but I want to make > > sure I describe the behavior and use cases properly. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Anthony > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Monday, March 28, 2011 11:17:18 AM UTC-4, Jose wrote: > > > 2011/3/28 Anthony <aba...@gmail.com>: > > > > On Monday, March 28, 2011 9:53:54 AM UTC-4, Jose wrote: > > > > > >> On 28 mar, 07:13, Alexandre Strzelewicz > > > >> <strz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> > I have recurrent problems with auto-migration. > > > > > >> > Is there a way to totally disable migration on all tables ? > > > > > >> > Thanks > > > > > >> db = DAL(..., migrate=False) > > > > > > Cools, I didn't even know about that. Is that in the book anywhere? > If > > > not, > > > > I'll add it. > > > > > > Anthony > > > > > Hi Anthony > > > > > look in: > > > > >http://web2py.com/book/default/chapter/11?search=migrate%3DFalse > > > > >http://www.web2py.com/examples/static/epydoc/web2py.gluon.dal.DAL-cla... > > > > > > Jose
