Added a database-backed cache backend, along with a tool in django-admin to

create the necessary table structure.  This closes #515; thanks again, 
Eugene!


git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@692 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/cache.txt b/docs/cache.txt
index 9f50e45511..ff1c406f7c 100644
--- a/docs/cache.txt
+++ b/docs/cache.txt
@@ -29,10 +29,20 @@ Examples:
     memcached://127.0.0.1:11211/    A memcached backend; the server is running
                                     on localhost port 11211.
 
+    db://tablename/                 A database backend in a table named 
+                                    "tablename". This table should be created
+                                    with "django-admin createcachetable".
+
+    file:///var/tmp/django_cache/   A file-based cache stored in the directory
+                                    /var/tmp/django_cache/.
+
     simple:///                      A simple single-process memory cache; you
                                     probably don't want to use this except for
                                     testing. Note that this cache backend is
                                     NOT threadsafe!
+                                        
+    locmem:///                      A more sophisticaed local memory cache;
+                                    this is multi-process- and thread-safe.
     ==============================  ===========================================
 
 All caches may take arguments -- they're given in query-string style.  Valid
diff --git a/docs/django-admin.txt b/docs/django-admin.txt
index 3f428161e0..b4b07f4f12 100644
--- a/docs/django-admin.txt
+++ b/docs/django-admin.txt
@@ -40,6 +40,14 @@ your admin's index page. See `Tutorial 2`_ for more information.
 
 .. _Tutorial 2: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/tutorial2/
 
+createcachetable [tablename]
+----------------------------
+
+Creates a cache table named ``tablename`` for use with the database cache
+backend.  See the `cache documentation`_ for more information.
+
+.. _cache documentation: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/cache/
+
 createsuperuser
 ---------------