drush entup --no-cache-clear is clearing cache

[hanoii]

I am looking into running this command to detect if there are pending updates under certain circumstances, and I don't want to clear cache to make it faster but it's always clearing.

drush 9.3.0

[ghost]

Same issue is happening to me.

drush entup -y -v --uri=http://example.com --no-cache-clear
 [info] Executing: mysql --defaults-file=/tmp/drush_hvzTLG --database=db --host=dbhost --port=3306 --silent  < /tmp/drush_uR9iVs
 [info] Executing: mysql --defaults-file=/tmp/drush_2NPKM8 --database=db --host=dbhost --port=3306 --silent  < /tmp/drush_TPljMU
 [success] No entity schema updates required
 [info] /usr/local/bin/drush  --backend=2 --verbose --root=/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/ --uri=http://example.com  cache-rebuild 2>&1
 [success] Cache rebuild complete.
 [success] Finished performing updates.

[weitzman]

Fixed in ab8e8a7.

Detection of pending updates should be handled by updatedb:status. To pick out just entity updates you can use grep, or --format=json and some more processing. It will require no further processing once we have #3718 (and follow-ups).