From 1e5f830fe76b96731d7a95f2baf099a3334bbe3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gordon chung <gord@live.ca>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 16:41:02 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] use mongodb distinct

we should use distinct capability mongo provides and not try to do
it ourselves.

Change-Id: I8a77308475e3e0b12430fcff0496caa1905eef10
Closes-Bug: #1427393
---
 ceilometer/event/storage/pymongo_base.py | 9 +--------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ceilometer/event/storage/pymongo_base.py b/ceilometer/event/storage/pymongo_base.py
index 461db6b1..1efc7215 100644
--- a/ceilometer/event/storage/pymongo_base.py
+++ b/ceilometer/event/storage/pymongo_base.py
@@ -98,14 +98,7 @@ class Connection(base.Connection):
 
     def get_event_types(self):
         """Return all event types as an iter of strings."""
-        event_types = set()
-        events = self.db.event.find()
-
-        for event in events:
-            event_type = event['event_type']
-            if event_type not in event_types:
-                event_types.add(event_type)
-                yield event_type
+        return self.db.event.distinct('event_type')
 
     def get_trait_types(self, event_type):
         """Return a dictionary containing the name and data type of the trait.