Document chproxy caching TTL configuration

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Description

Adds comprehensive documentation for chproxy's query caching TTL configuration. The expire parameter under caches controls cache lifetime but was not well documented.

Created documentation:

• CACHING_TTL.md - Full guide covering TTL configuration, implementation details, best practices
• CACHING_TTL_QUICK_REFERENCE.md - Fast lookup table with common TTL values by use case
• config/examples/cache_ttl_examples.yml - 7 cache configurations demonstrating different TTL patterns (10s, 5m, 1h, 24h, 7d)
• config/examples/simple_cache_ttl_test.yml - Minimal working example

Updated:

• README.md - Added key features section linking to caching documentation

Key information documented:

• expire: <duration> is required (no default)
• Format: Go duration syntax (10s, 5m, 1h, 24h, 7d)
• Applies to both file system and Redis cache modes
• Validation occurs at cache initialization, not config parsing
• Redis uses temp files for payloads with TTL < 15s to prevent streaming data loss

Example configuration:

caches:
  - name: "realtime"
    mode: "file_system"
    file_system:
      dir: "/tmp/cache"
      max_size: 1Gb
    expire: 10s           # Cache for 10 seconds

Pull request type

• Bugfix
• Feature
• Code style update (formatting, renaming)
• Refactoring (no functional changes, no api changes)
• Build related changes
• Documentation content changes
• Other (please describe):

Checklist

• Linter passes correctly
• Add tests which fail without the change (if possible)
• All tests passing
• Extended the README / documentation, if necessary

Does this introduce a breaking change?

• Yes
• No

Further comments

Documentation-only change. All example configurations validated against chproxy config parser.

Warning

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• 127.12.0.10
  • Triggering command: /tmp/go-build2516421963/b305/cache.test /tmp/go-build2516421963/b305/cache.test -test.testlogfile=/tmp/go-build2516421963/b305/testlog.txt -test.paniconexit0 -test.timeout=10m0s /tmp/go-build2516421963/b224/vet.cfg cgo -I ux_amd64/asm --gdwarf-5 --64 -o ux_amd64/asm -I g_.a -I ux_amd64/compile-c=4 --gdwarf-5 --64 -o ux_amd64/compile-buildtags (packet block)

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Original prompt

find out what is the caching TTL for chproxy queries

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