Thanks Nick. That's exactly what I needed. I'll estimate the number of
entries based on this number 20.

Cheers,
Oliver

On Aug 6, 1:53 pm, "Nick Johnson (Google)" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi Oliver,
>
> The iterator works by fetching batches of 20* entities at a time from
> a single query (it doesn't re-execute the query each time). If you
> always want to return all the results, you should definitely use
> .fetch(1000), though - it's faster than fetching in batches.
>
> -Nick Johnson
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Oliver Zheng<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > The docs suggest that if the limit of a fetch operation is unknown,
> > the Query should be used as an iterator. But how does it accomplish
> > that? Does it do an index search and db.get() for each iteration? If
> > the limit is unknown, aren't I better off with fetch(1000) since there
> > is only 1 db.get()?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Oliver
>
> --
> Nick Johnson, Developer Programs Engineer, App Engine
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