Memcached, Locking and Race Conditions

Question

We are trying to update memcached objects when we write to the database to avoid having to read them from database after inserts/updates.

For our forum post object we ha

Answer 1

I'm thinking - could a solution be to store viewcount seperately from the Post object, and then do an INCR on it. Of course this would require reading 2 seperate values from memcached when displaying the information.