Comments on: WordPress, Disable and Delete Post Revisions

By: gilles

gilles — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:05:54 +0000

Very useful, works well

Thanks

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:10:48 +0000

Very useful article. It worked a treat.
It got rid of all the post revisions.

For anyone who has never done it – -
i used the Query window,
under the SQL tab,
for my wordpress database,
in phpMyAdmin,
in MySQL,
in cPanel,
which most people seem to be able to get into.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:34:17 +0000

Note that you can check and repair MySQL tables:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/check.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/repair.html

By: admin

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:31:25 +0000

It might be all those joins that are causing the problem when done from phpmyadmin (as you have experienced)… Since there is a php script execution limit under php.ini that is relatively short (something like 30-60 seconds).

For future readers: The command-line MySQL shell should not experience this problem.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:44:58 +0000

the command crack the database..

By: Miguel

Miguel — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:42:33 +0000

I run that in phpmyadmin and get a timeout… my wp-posts have 120MB

By: admin

admin — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:17:13 +0000

Just note that the simple sql query…

1	DELETE FROM wp_posts WHERE post_type = 'revision';

…will not clean out the database completely.