Re: [appengine-python] Re: [appengine-java] Re: [google-appengine] Re: 1.5.2 SDK Prerelease

2011-07-15 Thread Alfred Fuller
Yes, you are correct and those indexes will work. It's a trade of, composite indexes 'pre-intersect' (at write time) properties while zigzag merge join 'post-intersects' properties (at read time). I left the ancestor in because it is probably very 'selective' which has the potential to greatly

Re: [appengine-python] Re: [appengine-java] Re: [google-appengine] Re: 1.5.2 SDK Prerelease

2011-07-15 Thread Alfred Fuller
:-) performance is data dependent. Here is convoluted explanation of performance: Sx = set of entities where list = :x smallest_set = min(S1.size(), S2.size(), ...) It works best when the intersection(S1, S2, S3,...) is large compared to the smallest_set. The pathological case is