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Opened 8 years ago

Last modified 12 months ago

#35430 new enhancement

Should the 'counts' cache group be persistent?

Reported by: wjywbs's profile wjywbs Owned by:
Milestone: Future Release Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version: 4.4
Component: Cache API Keywords: has-patch has-unit-tests
Focuses: performance Cc:

Description

I checked that the places storing data in the 'counts' cache group have proper way to delete the data in cache on updates. For example, wp_count_posts() stores the post count, and _transition_post_status() deletes the count. So could we change the 'counts' cache group to be persistent? This can reduce the repeated counting queries to the database.

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persistent_counts.diff​ (682 bytes) - added by wjywbs 8 years ago.

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Change History (12)

@wjywbs
8 years ago

#1 @wonderboymusic
7 years ago

  • Milestone changed from Awaiting Review to 4.7

Let's look

#2 @jorbin
7 years ago

This needs a dev post when it goes in.

#3 @jorbin
7 years ago

  • Keywords needs-unit-tests added

I would like to see some unit tests to support this change. Here is a draft for the make post for when that is ready.

## Persistent count caching in 4.8

The counts cache group has historically been excluded since [7986] fixed #6740. In the last 8 years, changes have made this no longer necessary. As such, counts is no longer a non-persistent group as of #XXXX. This should enable sites using a persistent cache to reduce the number of queries on certain page loads.

If you are are using the counts cache group in your code or are running a site with a persistant cache, you are highly encouraged to test this change.

This ticket was mentioned in ​Slack in #core by chriscct7. ​View the logs.
7 years ago

#5 @chriscct7
7 years ago

  • Keywords 4.8-early added
  • Milestone changed from 4.7 to Future Release

#6 @fabifott
6 years ago

Whats the matter with this?
I removed counts from the non-persistent groups on all of my sites and never encountered an issue with that.
There are many plugins that would gain performance.

#7 @johnbillion
23 months ago

  • Keywords 4.8-early removed

#8 @mukesh27
18 months ago

  • Keywords needs-refresh added

Hi there!

There is no movement on this for a long time and the persistent_counts.diff​ patch need update with the latest version.

The comment caches were set persistent in #36906.

#9 @ocean90
13 months ago

Some important notes on why the group is currently non-persistent in ticket:47884:8.

This ticket was mentioned in ​PR #3748 on ​WordPress/wordpress-develop by ​@dd32.
12 months ago #10

  • Keywords has-patch has-unit-tests added; needs-unit-tests needs-refresh removed

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/35430

​@dd32 commented on ​PR #3748:
12 months ago #11

For counts that are moved to persistent caches, some unit tests would be dandy to ensure that the cache clears as expected.

There's some existing tests that cover some of these, which is the purpose of the myriad of clean_comment_cache() calls that were added to clean comment caches (The existing unit tests failed after the change).

I agree though, that additional unit tests are needed.

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