[Tickets #10123] Re: Use memcache flags to keep track of large objects

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/10123
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  Ticket             | 10123
  Updated By         | Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
  Summary            | Use memcache flags to keep track of large objects
  Queue              | Horde Framework Packages
  Version            | Git master
  Type               | Enhancement
-State              | Feedback
+State              | Resolved
  Priority           | 1. Low
  Milestone          |
  Patch              |
  Owners             | Michael Slusarz
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Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org> (2011-05-26 22:21) wrote:

>> Your patch did not apply cleanly, so I had to go through by hand and
>> make the necessary changes.  Could you test and make sure I
>> transferred the changes correctly?
>
> Yep, its ok.
> I think that it should be sent to dev (or the appropriate place), a  
> message to warn people that starting  to use this code will bring  
> unexpected results if they have large objects on memcache.

How?  If I read the code correctly, this new code will simply cause a  
cache miss.

> We have made (untested yet) for ourselves a temporary patch to  
> convert old large objects to the new flag system. Attached the temp  
> patch

No need to convert these values.  Memcache, as the name itself  
implies, is a cache.  If data objects suddenly go missing, this is an  
expected occurrence.