The technique I use is to deploy it as a new version number, and wait for the indexes to finish, and then proceed to make it the default.
The indexes are shared between versions, so this "just works." It does mean that you have to plan for a 24 hour delay in deploying a new version, but for most developers, that forced QA time is probably good discipline anyway! -Joshua On Dec 18, 2009, at 10:53 AM, Brade wrote: > 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 >> >>> -- >> >>> 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-appeng...@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-appengine%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> >> -- >> Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine >> 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-appeng...@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. > > -- 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-appeng...@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.
