Great, thanks Nick. "No, having all your keys have the same prefix will not impact performance. Bigtable is smart enough to handle this. :) "
Now I didn't know this, and I can't find anything about that in the docs. Can anyone verify this? - Koen On Jun 23, 12:31 pm, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <nick.john...@google.com> wrote: > Hi Koen, > > No, having all your keys have the same prefix will not impact performance. > Bigtable is smart enough to handle this. :) > > -Nick Johnson > > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Koen Bok <k...@madebysofa.com> wrote: > > > I want my datastore keys to be uuid's (hex presentation), but they can > > start with a digit which is not allowed. So I figured I'd add a > > constant prefix. > > > Could that have a negative impact on the index the datastore builds? > > It shouldn't right? Just double checking :-) > > -- > Nick Johnson, App Engine Developer Programs Engineer > Google Ireland Ltd. :: Registered in Dublin, Ireland, Registration Number: > 368047 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---