Re: Refreshing stored data at administrator's signal

[Colin Wetherbee <suppressed>]

Clinton Gormley wrote:
> > I'm not sure what you're suggesting.  The first few pages of "cache" on 
> > CPAN have some modules for caching data in memory and on disk and so 
> > forth, but I don't see how they relate to my problem.
> >
> > Which is that of notifying all of my application's perl processes when 
> > an update has been performed on a table in a database, without having 
> > them access the database to determine this on their own.
>
> My personal favourite is Cache::Memcached, but that's only relevant if
> you have more than one web server.  If not, the file based caches are
> the fastest (or you could try looking at SQLite or Cache::BerkleyDB or
> even a memory table in MySQL, but on a different DB server)

Memcached sounds like a good idea.  I could cache the update timestamps 
and compare them on each run.

I guess I wasn't thinking about "cache" the right way around.

Thanks!

Colin