performance optimization for config_get

• remove patch for dd column name change
• cache result of db connection and table presence

git-svn-id: http://mantisbt.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mantisbt/trunk@3548 <a class="text" href="/?p=mantisbt.git;a=object;h=f5dc347c">f5dc347c</a>-c33d-0410-90a0-b07cc1902cb9