Procedure for the clean up of the database

[chills-eclipse]

Hi John. We need a procedure on how to clean up the database from time to time to prevent the size to become uncontrollable. Can you please provide us the steps on what we can clean etc. Thanks

[denisroy]

See also: https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/issues/4157#note_1703626

[kineticsquid]

@chills-eclipse Yep, something we need to get back to. @amvanbaren Thoughts?

[amvanbaren]

@kineticsquid You want to move forward on eclipse/openvsx#888?

[kineticsquid]

@amvanbaren MS doesn't limit extension versions. I'd like to see what other options we have.

The biggest offender is the file table. And there appear to be two API calls that could reference the table,

• /api/.../logo/...
• /api/.../file/...

Are there other API calls that reference the table?

I'm wondering if then consider where these API calls are coming from, we might be able to limit the size of the able. Where are calls to this API originating?

• open-vsx.org UI
• IDEs like Theia
• npx ovsx commands like get

In this Gitlab issue, https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/issues/4797, @denisroy provided a dump of the access logs and I took a look at the use of the API