[support] cache tables?

[Larry Garfield]

On Friday 29 February 2008, Jonathan Hedstrom wrote:
> Larry Garfield wrote:
> > The exception is cache_views, which in D5 does not rebuild-on-demand but
> > only on certain events, such as adding a module or clicking the "clear
> > views cache" button on the Tools tab of the Views admin page.  Don't
> > clear that one manually unless you really know what you're doing. :-)
>
> I'm not positive on this, but from what I can tell, the views cache
> isn't a special case, and using that tool simply empties out the table
> like any other cache clearing operation (via cache_clear_all).
>
> -Jonathan

I spoke with Earl Miles about it the other night, and I did misspeak.  The 
views cache will rebuild itself if it is empty; however, if it has only some 
records in it then it will not auto-rebuild except in certain situations.  
It's all or nothing, really.

So yes, just truncating all cache_* tables is safe to do. :-)

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