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STEAMPIPE_CACHE
Enable or disable automatic caching of results. This can significantly improve performance of some queries, at the expense of data freshness. Caching is enabled by default.
Set STEAMPIPE_CACHE to true to enable caching, or false to disable.
Usage
Disable caching:
Enable caching:
Advanced: Client & Server Caching
Note that when connecting to a remote Steampipe database instance, STEAMPIPE_CACHE can be set at BOTH the server and the client:
- Setting STEAMPIPE_CACHE on the host where the Steampipe database is running controls whether caching is enabled at all (the same as setting the cache argument in database options).
- Setting STEAMPIPE_CACHE on the remote client controls the caching options for this session only (the same as setting the cache argument in the workspace).
- If the server has caching enabled a client may choose to disable it for their session, but if the server disables caching then no client can enable it.