[Mediawiki-l] How to reduce database size

[Hans Voss]

To save Brion some work:
Please upgrade to (at least) 1.5.8 because 1.5.0 contains some serious bugs
(including security).

Somebody else please take up the answer to his real question.  :-)

On 5/1/06, Andy Roberts <aroberts at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm running close to a limit of mySQL database size for the level of
> hosting service I'm on.
>
> I bet there's some unused records in there taking up unnecessary space.
> Can anybody suggest an easy, safe way of compacting the database
> somehow please?
>
> The mediawiki was set up as a  1.3, upgraded to 1.5  and current versions
> are
>
> #  MediaWiki: 1.5.0
> # PHP: 4.4.1 (apache)
> # MySQL: 4.0.26-standard-log
>
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