Hello, this is my first post to this list so let me introduce myself.
We are a Canadian company that uses memcache for our website (
www.desi-planet.com), and have found the program very useful -- it cut a
heavy database load down by over 95%.
There was a patch for the append and prefix-flush commands back with version
1.1.1, but those versions are gone and this new version did not have these
functions which I needed. Thus here's a patch to offer these additions:
Commands:
SEARCH {prefix word}
APPEND {key} {flags} {expiry} {size}
The search will find all the keys in the memcached server that match the
prefix. However, some of the returned results will already have expired, so
it's mainly useful when you will do a delete of those entries or a get of
them. I use it to delete all message posts with certain prefixes.
The append works like a REPLACE but keeps the previous data and appends the
new data.
More meta-data with GET command:
I have included the time-to-expiry information in the GET returns (its the
first numbe after the key):
get bh
VALUE bh 270 10 20 0123456789ABCDABCD.. END I use this information for deciding how soon I need to update database caches. If I wait till the item has expired, it can cause a massive spike in my database as all users wait for the database to get the info. If I know it's goign to expire, I can gracefully update it 10-15 seconds before it does with new data, and it won't affect users.
memcached_append_search.patch
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