Some projects (e.g. cinder) have tools..
`cinder-manage db-purge` or maybe it's "db purge" or something along those
lines...
It was around Kilo when that got added.

Otherwise, in the past, I've done
mysql backup, then a massive table by table purge of "deleted=1" rows.

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Gilles Mocellin <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Le 22/06/2016 à 23:26, Gilles Mocellin a écrit :
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> While digging in nova's database, I found that many objects ar not really
>> deleted, but instead just marked deleted.
>> In fact, it's a general behavior in other projects (cinder, glance...).
>>
>> I understand that. It can be handy.
>>
>> But, is there a way to handle regular purging of theses elements inside
>> OpenStack configuration ?
>>
>> Or do we, operators, have to create batchs to purge all that ?
>>
>>
> I've found some blueprints indicating that there nothing for now, inside
> OpenStack :
>
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/purge-deleted-instances-cmd
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/cinder/+spec/database-purge
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/glance/+spec/database-purge
>
>
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