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On 11/06/2013 11:18 AM, Jay Pipes wrote:
> On 11/06/2013 11:42 AM, Craig E. Ward wrote:
>> It looks like when flavors are modified in nova, the database row with
>> the old data is marked "deleted" and a new row created. Is there a
>> reason to keep these deleted rows around? Can it cause problems to
>> actually remove them from the table?
>
> Yes. You will see a bunch of errors pop up in various log files
> referring to Flavor IDs that no longer exist but are in use by compute
> instances...
>
> It's annoying more than anything else...

With this sort of cruft left around in the database do we anticipate 
issues with the database growing indefinitely?

Seems like it would make sense to have the ability to throw out stale 
data once the admins feel it's no longer needed.

Chris