Hi,

I guess a work around is using cursors, I guess thats why in the GAE
performance track on Google I/O they say "never use offset, use cursor
instead"

Cheers

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 3:07 PM, James Gilliam <[email protected]> wrote:

> I discovered that GAE charges you for skipping entities in Datastore with
> OFFSET.  So, if you want to retrieve 1 record at offset 10, you pay for
> reading 11.
>
> This makes OFFSET expensive and WORTHLESS ...
>
> Offset should never be mentioned in the documentation without a footnote
> that says you can't afford to use it.
>
> Kinda pissed about this.
>
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