Consider precalculating this data and storing it against another entity.
This will save a lot of work on requests.

-Nick Johnson

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:55 PM, herbie <4whi...@o2.co.uk> wrote:

>
> No the users won't need to read 1000 entities, but I want to calculate
> the average of a  property from the latest 1000 entities.
>
>
> On Jun 22, 3:30 pm, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <nick.john...@google.com>
> wrote:
> > Correct. Are you sure you need 1000 entities, though? Your users probably
> > won't read through all 1000.
> >
> > -Nick Johnson
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:23 PM, herbie <4whi...@o2.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > So to be sure to get the latest 1000 entities I should add a datetime
> > > property to my entitie model and filter and sort on that?
> >
> > > On Jun 22, 1:42 pm, herbie <4whi...@o2.co.uk> wrote:
> > > > I know that if there are more than 1000 entities that match a query,
> > > > then only 1000 will  be return by fetch().  But my question is which
> > > > 1000? The last 1000 added to the datastore?  The first 1000 added to
> > > > the datastore? Or is it undedined?
> >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Ian
> >
> > --
> > Nick Johnson, App Engine Developer Programs Engineer
> > Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration
> Number:
> > 368047
> >
>


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Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration Number:
368047

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