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Subject: Re: creating unique numeric IDs in datastore (sample code)
From: Ben the Indefatigable <bcbry...@gmail.com>
To: Google App Engine <google-appengine@googlegroups.com>
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In this post Marce of google describes a mechanism for generating a
real number ID used to select a random record, and avoid a "uniformly
incrementing counter." Which goes to show that if you use your
imagination you may find a satisfactory alternative to the sequence
number/counter problem, depending on your situation.