Add documentation about history tables cleanup.
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Description
Add best practices about the choice that can be made to remove older history from many history tables that rucio has.
Answer to:
How to partition table by data-time column?
How to drop the older partition ?
How to Alter existing table to add partitioning to table?
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the existing documentation sections covering Rucio history tables and database maintenance. Add best practices answering the three listed questions about partitioning by date-time, dropping older partitions, and partitioning existing tables; done means the guidance is clear and covers each question.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- databases, documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 65/100