Unfortunately, we don't have mass deletion capability yet. The datastore isn't like a relational database where we can just drop a table. Entities are schemaless and are indexed, so a mass deletion would need to traverse the EntitiesByKind index:
http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/storage_breakdown.html#anc-entitiestable <http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/storage_breakdown.html#anc-entitiestable>At some point, we may offer a delete better tools for managing a mass delete, though it would likely be implemented on top of our Task Queue infrastructure since it wouldn't be a trivial operation. Can you add/find the issue in our issues tracker and star it? http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:49 AM, lookon <areyouloo...@gmail.com> wrote: > My total datastore has been reached 77% and I'd like to clear some old > data. How can I remove a whole Model in GAE? And how can I delete huge > amount of data? > > I'm now using the task queue to delete. Wish someone can give me some > better way. Thanks. > > -- > 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. > > -- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine http://googleappengine.blogspot.com | http://twitter.com/app_engine -- 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.
