[google-appengine] Re: Yet another GQL LIMIT/OFFSET thread ...

2009-04-14 Thread Wooble
You can use offset and limit perfectly well to deal with fewer than 1000 results. If your queries would return more results, of course they're not very useful since the datastore won't return more then 1000 results under any circumstances. On Apr 14, 12:44 pm, Arny wrote: > Hi, > > Any of the G

[google-appengine] Re: Yet another GQL LIMIT/OFFSET thread ...

2009-04-14 Thread Eric Walker
Hi Arny, The reason the offset works this way is related to bigtable and the way the datastore has been implemented on top of it. If what you need is paging, e.g., scrolling through a dataset of search results, there are more efficient ways of doing this than using the offset. Some of them are