RE: [Summary-Talk] New Feature in 2.5.2

["Pablo F. Garcia Melga" <pablo.garcia@xxxxxxxxx>]

So, It'll Ask you about the date range you want to keep or you want to 
erase
from the database ?
What'll happen when the summary parses the logs again ?

Regards, Pablo

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From: owner-summary-talk@lists.summary.net
[mailto:owner-summary-talk@lists.summary.net] On Behalf Of Jason Linhart
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2004 12:59 PM
To: summary-talk@lists.summary.net
Subject: Re: [Summary-Talk] New Feature in 2.5.2


On 6/18/04 11:56 AM Pablo F. Garcia Melga (pgarcia@deremate.com) wrote:

>I'm not sure what the "New prune database function" really does, could 
>you explain this a little further. I apoligize if this is really clear 
>for everyone else, but I just want to be sure of what it does.

This isn't very well explained anywhere currently. Hopefully this will 
make it into the manual soon. In the mean time:

In Summary Plus, SP Lite, and SP, when you are in incremental mode, on 
the Tools configuration page there is a new option, "Prune the Database". 
This feature expires records from the database once, in much the same way 
that various settings on the Memory configuration page can be set to 
expire records continuously.

This is useful when you don't need to expire records continuously, but 
after running for many months in incremental mode have started to fill up 
your memory with the Summary database. You can then "Prune the Database" 
and recover perhaps half (in most cases) of the memory Summary is using 
for it's database. You will lose some of the detailed information about 
things which are happening very infrequently, which generally is not a 
problem.

Jason

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