Clean up and I think I fixed a weird bug with Pydantic models and the list object type. It seems to try for a dict conversion first if Union[dict,list] is used.

app/db_sql.py

@@ -288,16 +288,17 @@ def sql_insert_or_update(
 # The catch all SQL SELECT function - STI 2021-02-17
 # This one does it all for SQL SELECT queries
 def sql_select(
-        table_name:str|None=None,
-        record_id:int|None=None,
-        record_id_random:str|None=None,
-        field_name:str|None=None,
-        field_value=None,
-        sql:str|None=None,
-        data:dict|None=None,
-        rm_id_random:bool=False,
-        as_dict:bool|None=True,
-        as_list:bool|None=False
+        table_name: str|None = None,
+        record_id: int|None = None,
+        record_id_random: str|None = None,
+        field_name: str|None = None,
+        field_value = None,
+        sql: str|None = None,
+        data: dict|None = None,
+        rm_id_random: bool = False,
+        as_dict: bool|None = True,
+        as_list: bool|None = False,
+        max_count: int = 100000
         ):
     #log.setLevel(logging.WARNING) # DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, EXCEPTION, CRITICAL
     log.debug(locals())