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authorMike Lissner <mlissner@michaeljaylissner.com>2020-07-30 13:49:57 -0700
committerMariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@gmail.com>2021-05-20 07:02:56 +0200
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[3.2.x] Added note about culling in database cache backend docs.
Co-authored-by: Mariusz Felisiak <felisiak.mariusz@gmail.com> Backport of 6e155d280dbe4bab171619654d8abc4b7f197e78 from main
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@@ -195,6 +195,10 @@ In this example, the cache table's name is ``my_cache_table``::
}
}
+Unlike other cache backends, the database cache does not support automatic
+culling of expired entries at the database level. Instead, expired cache
+entries are culled each time ``add()``, ``set()``, or ``touch()`` is called.
+
Creating the cache table
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~