I'd love this too. Star 4231: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4231
Robert On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 01:31, renderpaz <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Let me preface this by saying that I don't believe the planned pricing > changes will have a dramatic impact on my costs - in-fact it has > motivated me to trim the fat and I'm already seeing large savings. > > That said, my biggest cost is datastore writes. I completely > understand that updating a composite index should "cost" a data store > write, but the problem is 90% of my data store writes are coming from > the "built-in" indexes on each property. (I specifically have 6 > properties). > > I would happily turn of the built in indexes on many of these > properties, but using indexed=False also prevents me from including > that property in a composite index as well! > > In retrospect I could easily have hashed the 6 properties into 1 > indexable property - but that seems ridiculous as all I want to do is > say, "Don't create built in indexes for these, but allow me to include > them in composite indexes" > > MAIN POINT: > Is there a reason it is not possible to turn off built in indexes? It > seems unfair that I cannot disable these indexes but am charged full > price for them (and its >>> my actual writes) > > Thanks, > Kevin > > Datastore quota info provided below: > Datastore API Calls 0% 127,540,291 of Unlimited Okay > Datastore Queries 0% 517,774 of Unlimited Okay > Blobstore API Calls 0% 0 of Unlimited Okay > Total Stored Data 10% 157.95 of 1,601.00 GBytes Okay > Blobstore Stored Data 0% 0.00 of 1,601.00 GBytes Okay > Data Sent to Datastore API 0% 17.19 of Unlimited GBytes > Okay > Data Received from Datastore API 0% 12.01 of Unlimited > GBytes Okay > Datastore CPU Time 0% 1,187.75 of Unlimited CPU hours > Okay > Datastore Entity Fetch Ops 0% 75,875,047 of Unlimited > Okay > --------------------------------------------- > Datastore Entity Put Ops 0% 35,815,086 of Unlimited > Okay > ----------------------------------------- > Datastore Entity Delete Ops 0% 31,931 of Unlimited Okay > ----------------------------------------------------- > Datastore Index Write Ops 0% **** 288,168,806 ****** of > Unlimited > Okay > ----------------------------------------------- > Datastore Query Ops 0% 517,617 of Unlimited Okay > Datastore Key Fetch Ops 0% 14,858,227 of Unlimited Okay > Datastore Id Allocation Ops 0% 0 of Unlimited Okay > Number of Indexes 2% 3 of 200 Okay > Prospective Search Subscriptions 0% 0 of 10,000 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
