Indexes

[Christian Goudreau]

Hi Everyone,

Why my indexes takes forever to build while there's only two object? And two field?

[Barry Hunter]

If you mean a custom composit index (ie via index.yaml) - then I
believe there is a sequential processing queue.

The delay is as much about how many tasks (and their size!) are in the
queue, rather than the size of your new index.

Unless its stuck in some sort of error state - check your logs. In
which case might need to do some vacuuming

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[Mike Wesner]

Would be great to hear from the App Engine Team about this. It seems
like one area that has never had any attention.

Work could be done to:

1. Speed this process up or at least inform the user of the ETA
2. Explain why an index goes into error, or better yet just never let
them be in error
3. Allow the user to fix the index by clicking on something if its in
error (remove and re-index button?)


-mike

[Robert Kluin]

I also dislike the current workflow. At the minimum it could easily
be made less painful for the users. I submitted a ticket with one
proposed improvement.

http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6573

Robert

[Max Ross (Google)]

Hi everyone,

We have a project underway to rebuild our index-building pipeline from the ground up. It's going well, and we're in the process of rolling it out to a limited number of applications to make sure it's working the way we expect it to. The new pipeline should be fairer and less error prone. Keep an eye out for the official announcement in the next few months!

The features you've requested sound very sensible, and once we have the new pipeline fully rolled out we'll be in a much better position to tackle them.

Thanks,

Max