Re: Response cache on the application server
"MD" <MD@MD.com> wrote in message news:ffELg.10045$Mh7.4734@edtnps90...
Is it a good thing to cache the search result?
The metadata for our system can be as much as 100,000
I am trying to enable the response cache on the web server.
However, I am thinking about the problem i might meet.
When you cache the search result, is it possible the other
person throw the same condiiton and see the same result?
With our system there some security set for each row, so
if this happens there is a security leak.
In general, caching only makes sense if ALL of the following are true:
(A) You have an expensive to evaluate function.
(B) The function always returns the same result, given the same input
(this is given by the definition of "function", but it's worth emphasizing).
(C) The function has no side effects.
(D) The function is called with identical inputs frequently enough that
the memory overhead of caching is worth it.
It sounds like you're saying one of the inputs of the function is the
security access level of the user perform a search. The other inputs
presumably include the search query itself. It should be relatively easy to
check A, B and C just by looking at your code. For D, you have to think
about how your users are actually using your code.
- Oliver
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-- Robert Mitchum, Playboy, Jan. 1979