This is one of those "ugly truths" about app engine, as glorious as it
is otherwise.
Perhaps there should be more emphasis on the necessity of deploying a
new index definition before adding new features to one's app?
My app www.klection.com luckily is not "mission critical" but the
aggregated comments section "What You Say" is about 12 hours along on
its "building" status, as all I added was a __key__ desc index for
comments (which there are less than 50 of right now). BTW my local dev
environment failed to add this index automagically for some odd
reason, so it took me a while even to troubleshoot the fact I needed
to add it manually (because the functionality was working fine in my
local environment).

I will be starting fairly soon on my next GAE app, and these sorts of
issues make me wary. As fantastic as it is in many respects, the
indexing problems really affect the reliability of the system. It's
nice to see the recent emphasis in the Articles section about the
Datastore, but hopefully in the near future there will be better
information reporting when deploying your app, because things that
work great on your local dev environment should not completely break
once deployed. That seems borderline unacceptable at present.

--brad g.

On Dec 3, 4:12 am, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <nick.john...@google.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We're working on speeding up index building times. There's nothing you can
> do as a user to speed up index building.
>
> -Nick Johnson
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 6:35 PM, jpmorganuk
> <market...@farrellheyworth.co.uk>wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi Nick,
>
> > What can be done to speed this up?
>
> > Regards,
> > jpmorganuk
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