On Dec 5, 8:21 pm, ionous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i poked around on the faq and mail lists, but haven't seen anything
> definitive;
> does anyone know whether there is a guaranteed order to the items
> returned in get_multi?
You may observe some pattern to the results, but non is guaranteed.
> if i asked for the values at keys: 5,4,3,2,1 - and key 1 expired
> itself -
> would memcached return the keys: 5,4,3,2 in that order?
>
> i playing with a stack-like ( queue-like? :) idea that uses auto-
> expiring values to detect the current bottom of the stack -- it's a
> minor thing but it would simplify the logic in my code that process
> the results of get_multi if the order of the returns happened to be
> the order of the requests.
>
> ( i'm using the python client which returns the keys as dictionaries,
> so i'd have to change that code to return a list, but really i'm just
> curious about the server's mechanics )
>
> thanks for any insights!
>
> -simon.
