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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst | 14 |
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diff --git a/docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst b/docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst index 08b3306366..b4e5bd9d75 100644 --- a/docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst +++ b/docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst @@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ 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. @@ -15,3 +13,15 @@ The API is simply: ``POST /_matrix/client/r0/admin/purge_history/<room_id>/<event_id>`` including an ``access_token`` of a server admin. + +By default, events sent by local users are not deleted, as they may represent +the only copies of this content in existence. (Events sent by remote users are +deleted, and room state data before the cutoff is always removed). + +To delete local events as well, set ``delete_local_events`` in the body: + +.. code:: json + + { + "delete_local_events": True, + } |