[google-appengine] wish: declare properties to exclude from indexing

2010-02-20 Thread notcourage
Apps often have properties which don't need indexing but the datastore creates two rows in the single property index tables per property value per entity--effectively the entity is stored three times. If the API allowed a property to be excluded from indexing, this overhead would be reduced. --

Re: [google-appengine] wish: declare properties to exclude from indexing

2010-02-20 Thread Eli Jones
Good idea.. maybe something like this :) Properties that Aren't Indexed Property values that aren't indexed are not findable by queries. This includes properties that are marked as not indexed, as well as properties with values of the long text value type (Text) or the long binary value type