On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Platonides <platoni...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Memcached* >> >> Our $_SESSION simply lives in memcached. >> So we could do >> $fake_session = $wgMemc->get( wfMemcKey( 'session', $session_id ) ) ; >> $fake_session["upload_ok"] = true; >> $wgMemc->set( wfMemcKey( 'session', $session_id ), $fake_session, 3600 ) ; > > This means that if a memcached server goes down, the information will > be lost. The database is the correct place to put this. (Also the > correct place to put sessions, for that matter . . .) > Also, on places where no memcached or equivalent is available (i.e. CACHE_NONE), this will not work. I think the loss of session data due to memcached breakage was found to be acceptable. Does anybody have some references for this?
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