[ixpmanager] some questions re: IXP 5

[Athanasios Douitsis]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 01:25:20AM +0000, Barry O'Donovan wrote:

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> Athanasios Douitsis wrote on 30/10/2019 13:32:>>>
> - Likewise, how is the cache table (if one chooses to use a database
> > > >     cache instead of files or memcached) supposed to be created and
> > > >     initialized?
> > > 
> > > It's not supported right now. We've never used or tried it.
> > 
> > Indeed? I enabled the database driver yesterday and it seems to be
> > working. Are you saying we shouldn't use that driver? Which drivers are
> > supported?
> 
> It may well work for some parts of it but there's actually two caching
> mechanisms in the backend of IXP Manager: Laravel and Doctrine ORM. The
> recommended and supported caching mechanism is memcahced which 'just works'
> for both.
> 
> More generally, databases are designed for persistent storage rather than
> temporary caching. IXP Manager isn't going to get more than a couple
> concurrent requests per second so the usual database limitations as a cache
> won't come into play but - as above - it's neither supported nor recommended
> by us and won't work for the Doctrine side.
> 
>  - Barry

Wait, in config/cache.php there are 7 possible CACHE_DRIVER values. Are
you saying that only 'memcached' is valid?

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