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| author | Richard van der Hoff <github@rvanderhoff.org.uk> | 2017-10-16 10:43:22 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2017-10-16 10:43:22 +0100 |
| commit | e5048169777b6004cd3e16517b7855d41033a4c1 (patch) | |
| tree | 06f469795c7985f15a478b7e3373c100c1435dd5 | |
| parent | Bump version and changelog (diff) | |
| parent | make it absolutely clear that Purge History API does not remove all traces of... (diff) | |
| download | synapse-e5048169777b6004cd3e16517b7855d41033a4c1.tar.xz | |
Merge pull request #2540 from 4nd3r/patch-1
make it absolutely clear that purge doesn't remove everything
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst | 2 |
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diff --git a/docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst b/docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst index 986efe40f9..08b3306366 100644 --- a/docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst +++ b/docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ Purge History API The purge history API allows server admins to purge historic events from their database, reclaiming disk space. +**NB!** This will not delete local events (locally sent messages content etc) from the database, but will remove lots of the metadata about them and does dramatically reduce the on disk space usage + Depending on the amount of history being purged a call to the API may take several minutes or longer. During this period users will not be able to paginate further back in the room from the point being purged from. |