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<br><div><div>On Aug 30, 2007, at 13:55 , Sam Washburn wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">This is a shot in the dark question, but is it in the maintainer's interest<br>to implement a partial flush of a memcache server? Perhaps by a wild card<br>key? The other way I was thinking it could be done is by having both a<br>context and a key for storing a value.<br><br>Are any of these ideas of interest to the maintainers? I have the skill to<br>implement these changes myself (and can contribute), but thought I would try<br>going to the source(no pun intended) before forking this great project.<br></span></blockquote></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>There are two proposals for this currently (everyone flog me for not putting this on the wiki and pointing to it):<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1) Regex (or prefix) clearing.<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2) Tagging (and tag clearing).<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Both work in a similarly. Here's the description I wrote of the wildcard delete mechanism:<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://lists.danga.com/pipermail/memcached/2007-July/004711.html">http://lists.danga.com/pipermail/memcached/2007-July/004711.html</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The same thread goes over tags a bit, but effectively, you'd be able to tag the key with the server name and delete by the server name tag.<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div> <br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>-- </div><div>Dustin Sallings</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></body></html>