Thanks for the explanation Barry. Phil, it sounds like you are talking about the local datastore. Can you clarify?
-- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine plus.ikailan.com | twitter.com/ikai On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:29 AM, Barry Hunter <[email protected]>wrote: > That doesn't even make sense > > The Datastore has no concept of 'table'. > > All Entities - regardless of their kind- are stored in one 'bigtable' > - they are all intermingled. In fact all Entities from everyone's apps > are stored in the same bigtable. > > So to delete a 'table' - which is really just all entities of a given > kind for a given app - would need to loop though and delete each > individual entity. Once there are no entities of a given kind/model > left, the 'kind' has effectively been dropped. > > > I would guess need to check you aren't somehow using the application > version in the Kind name or even the key?. Then when the application > is updated, the version changes and therefore the old entities become > inaccessible. > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Phil McDonnell > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Twice now a deploy has cleared several of the data tables in my deployed > > datastore. Does anyone know what causes this? The symptoms both times > are > > consistent. I do a deploy and the datastore drops several of the tables. > > Strangely, one very old (and generally unused) table is not dropped and > my > > blob data is still there. Is this dropping of data/tables on deploy a > > known "feature" that I'm somehow not understanding? Note, this does not > > happen on every deploy. > > We are still pre-launch, but I'm extremely concerned that this could > happen > > when we are live. If we drop our data when we are live it would cost us > a > > lot of money. > > Thanks so much, > > Phil > > > > -- > > 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. > > -- 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.
