Deletes Are Driving Me Crazy

[Fabian Thylmann]

Hi Matt,

what you probably want is

set(key, val)

which will set a new value for key even if it exists.

Fabian


Matthew Glubb wrote:

> Happy New Year to you all.
>
> I am sorry if this has been covered before but I have trawled through  
> the list archives and cannot find a definitive solution.
>
> I would really like to know how to:
>
> add(key, val)
> delete(key)
> add(key, val)
>
> Just seems to plain not work (all adds have zero expiration).
>
> If I:
>
> add(key, val)
> delete(key, 1)
> sleep(2)
> add(key, val)
>
> It works.
>
> Please can someone enlighten me as to how I may immediately delete a  
> key and then add a key of the same name? I am using memcached-1.1.12  
> & John McCaskey's mcache extension 1.2.0 beta10.
>
> I noticed in the archives this thread:
>
> <http://lists.danga.com/pipermail/memcached/2004-July/000688.html>
>
> This seems to be related to the problem that I am having but my  
> version of memcached is almost a year later than this so I would  
> assume that the patch referred to in the thread is included. I'm  
> going to check that this isn't a problem with John's mcache extension  
> but if anyone has a simple answer to my problem I'd love to hear it.
>
> Thanks a lot for your help :)
>
> Matt
>
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