Thanks for pointing that out, If you have any sort of frequent input
to your application, this is a whale of an issue, just didn't notice
until the billing change.

Others, please vote for this issue, it can't be that much of a
challenge to fix.

On Sep 6, 11:34 pm, Robert Kluin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
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