[ckan-dev] How to reduce the size of the database "activity" table?

[Dan Mihaila]

Hello,
Also I think revisions slow down and could have the same size of rows. Any
recommendations?

Regards,

*Dan Mihaila*, IT Consultant
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 10:50 PM Ian Ward <ian at excess.org> wrote:

> We should have a CLI command and background job for removing old activity
> entries, or collapsing them to 1/day/week/month per dataset.
>
> An option to disable activities entirely would be great for some sites too.
>
> Until we have features like that it should be safe to remove old activity
> records directly from the database. I recommend backing up your DB before
> any direct modifications, of course.
>
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 2:39 PM Brian Bonnlander <bonnland at ucar.edu>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi CKAN developers,
>>
>> We have a CKAN instance with datasets whose metadata are continually
>> being updated using the CKAN harvester.
>>
>> Only one field is typically changed:  the time range for the data (more
>> data gets added every few days).
>>
>>
>> After running for more than a year, we now have an "activity" table with
>> over 200,000 rows, and the database has grown to around 10 GB in size.
>>
>> Is there a way to safely clear the "activity" table?   Or maybe keep it
>> from growing in the first place, since the changes being recorded are
>> not that interesting in the first place?
>>
>>
>> Thank you for your time,
>>
>> --Brian
>>
>>
>> -------
>>
>> Brian Bonnlander
>>
>> National Center for Atmospheric Research
>>
>> Boulder, Colorado  USA
>>
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