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CondeNast / purgely

A WordPress plugin to manage Fastly caching behavior and purging.
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Completely remove the concept of "related URLs" #8

Closed tollmanz closed 8 years ago

tollmanz commented 8 years ago

The more I think about the idea of finding related URLs and issuing individual purge requests for those URLs, I think that we are not leveraging surrogate keys to their full potential. Currently, when a URL purge is requested with related URLs, related URLs are found (e.g., term pages, feed URLs, author pages) and each is purged separately.

Theoretically, a post-{id} surrogate key should be available on each of those "related URLs". Thus, surrogate purging should be sufficient.

I don't think anything is lost with this transition. In fact, the cache purging is likely to be more precise and comprehensive with this method.

tollmanz commented 8 years ago

This was done in https://github.com/CondeNast/purgely/commit/10038d3982a0bb392973c9db03e8a84a534758bc. I do still like the idea of related URL purging for situations when you have a URL, but don't know what the related URLs might be. Anyway, nothing more to do here.