[google-appengine] Re: Intermittent delete failures

2009-07-31 Thread Holger
Maybe you are lucky and someone takes the time to work through your code. If not you should be able to solve your problem by changing your code step by step. Go back to a version (or create a simple one) where deleting works corretly. Then change it into the direction of your faulty code and tes

[google-appengine] Re: Intermittent delete failures

2009-07-31 Thread rkluin
I probably should note several things I have already tried: 1) I moved the deletion step outside of the transaction. 2) Instead of using the "bulk" delete method, I looped through deleting one-by-one (both in and out of the transaction). All combinations produced the same results, sometimes the

[google-appengine] Re: Intermittent delete failures

2009-07-31 Thread Holger
You tested deleting them one by one out of transaction. Did you test a version without ancestor relations set too? (Just these relations may be the reason, as change is blocked within an ancestor group as long as another change is not finished.) If such tests don't help, maybe it's an appengine i

[google-appengine] Re: Intermittent delete failures

2009-08-03 Thread rkluin
I guess taking a couple day off from the problem helped. When the issue started I thought the fact that every time the file was reloaded it worked was strange. I realized why today. The issue is in how I was defining my "placeholder" properties. From the documentation I was, incorrectly, under