Hmm. So this whole tombstone thing could also fail? What's the probability?

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Peter <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Mar 29, 6:19 pm, prgmratlarge <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I've been thinking of using the fact that taskqueue names cannot be
> > duplicated to my advantage. But how reliable is this "fact." Is there
> > ANY chance that the taskqueue will indeed be enqueued again?
>
> You should not absolutely rely on task names to ensure only-once
> semantics.  It is fairly reliable, but is definitely best effort only
> - in exceptional circumstances (e.g. mostly around the time we
> failover to a different data center) it is possible for the task to be
> created (and run) twice.  This was a conscious design decision: it
> gives us low latency task creation.  If you need guaranteed only-once
> semantics then you'll need to use datastore to ensure the named task
> is only run once.
>
> Peter
>
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