My guess is that this is to prevent collisions (or reduce the chances) when two or more JVMs / datastore servers are auto-assigning the keys.
On Jul 3, 9:58 pm, Deepika M <drift2elys...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a question about the keys in the datastore. > > The keys are in sorted order when I view in the local datastore. For > example, when I initially store say 10 entities and the keys range from 8000 > to 8009, then next time when I store 10 entities, the keys range from > 8010-8019. That is the next key starts in the ascending order. > > But when I store in the app engine, the keys are not in order and random > keys are assigned. For example , the first key will be 3001 and the next key > will be 8343. So, the next time when I store the entities, some of them are > assigned keys between 3001 and 8343. Can anyone please explain why? Is there > a possible way to have the keys in sorted order in the app engine datastore? > > Thanks, > Deepika -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
