Hi Carlos,

An index such as this on a single list property is not 'exploding' - the
number of index rows will be equal to the number of list entries. Exploding
indexes occur when you index two or more list properties, or the same one
twice.

-Nick Johnson

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Carlos Alberto Machado <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've studied the Jaiku code ( http://code.google.com/p/jaikuengine/ )
> and noticed a piece of it that can cause an exploding index:
>
> - kind: InboxEntry
>  properties:
>  - name: inbox
>  - name: created_at
>    direction: desc
>
> 'inbox' is a StringListProperty and the list is very large for real
> cases (in fact, the number of followers of a user of the service).
>
> How can I know if an index will be too large? What are the reference
> values?
>
> As I don't have much knowledge of GAE, I want to know if I'm right.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
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