I remember reading one or more articles claiming this limit as well, but it was quite some time ago (maybe in 2008?). Probably they were confused by the 1mb entity limit.
Damn, I guess *everything* I read on the internet isn't true? :/ Robert On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 23:15, JH <ja...@mhztech.com> wrote: > Thanks for the reply Nick. There are various articles on the internet > claiming Google had limitations on variable size early on, maybe it > was just a misunderstanding > > On Jun 6, 12:52 am, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <nick.john...@google.com> > wrote: >> Geoffrey is correct - there isn't and never was such a limit. In fact, it'd >> be difficult to implement, and I can't see any reason it would be at all >> useful. The only size limits are on the total memory consumed by your >> instance, and on the size of API calls. >> >> -Nick Johnson >> >> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Geoffrey Spear <geoffsp...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > On May 26, 10:11 am, JH <ja...@tickettrackit.com> wrote: >> > > I'm actually talking about python variables. Ints, Strings, Lists, >> > > Dicts, etc.. >> >> > I don't believe there was ever such a limit. The 1MB limit is on the >> > API calls, which makes it impossible to have a datastore entity larger >> > than 1MB (and, thus, impossible to have individual properties larger >> > than 1MB as well, although in practice you'll never fit a whole 1MB >> > into a property because the entire serialized entity needs to be able >> > to fit into the 1MB API call to write it). >> >> > -- >> > 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. >> >> -- >> Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, 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-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. > > -- 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.
