You are right. No database introspection.
On Feb 21, 3:11 pm, Fred <fre...@gmail.com> wrote: > [Replying to old message; I'm way behind] > > On Jan 15, 1:21 am, pbreit <pbreitenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I think web2py compares the .table files to the > > database to figure out what needs to be migrated. > > Is this correct? Everything I've seen suggests that web2py compares > the .table files to the model files (models/*.py) to determine what > has changed and therefore needs migration. I have not seen any sign > that web2py does introspection on the database itself.