X-Git-Url: https://git.openstreetmap.org./nominatim.git/blobdiff_plain/403e6f7e5c9aaeee6de0aefe76bdcbdb997cf108..804fb5f93e178c602aa0d9b60d7a8eec1d4c912b:/docs/admin/Maintenance.md diff --git a/docs/admin/Maintenance.md b/docs/admin/Maintenance.md index 1ee313a9..325e6f8f 100644 --- a/docs/admin/Maintenance.md +++ b/docs/admin/Maintenance.md @@ -60,16 +60,13 @@ to finish the recomputation. ## Removing large deleted objects +Command: `nominatim admin --clean-deleted ` + Nominatim refuses to delete very large areas because often these deletions are accidental and are reverted within hours. Instead the deletions are logged in the `import_polygon_delete` table and left to the administrator to clean up. -There is currently no command to do that. You can use the following SQL -query to force a deletion on all objects that have been deleted more than -a certain timespan ago (here: 1 month): +To run this command you will need to pass a PostgreSQL time interval. For example to +delete any objects that have been deleted more than a month ago you would run: +`nominatim admin --clean-deleted '1 month'` -```sql -SELECT place_force_delete(p.place_id) FROM import_polygon_delete d, placex p -WHERE p.osm_type = d.osm_type and p.osm_id = d.osm_id - and age(p.indexed_date) > '1 month'::interval -```