[Theforum] [---Dev] RE: [---tent] Article cleanup issue

[Martin Burns]

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, rudy wrote:

> >> > the new solution is to find a way to set articles to an
> >> > 'archived' status which relieves some load on the db,
> >> > but otherwise doesn't harm their status as published
> >> > articles (preserves incoming links, shows 'em in search
> >> > results, counts toward cubes, etc.)...
> >
> > so, who has an issue with this solution, as described above?
>
> i do
>
> restating the above, the new solution is to archive articles to relieve the
> load on the database while otherwise having no harmful effect on articles
>
> could we perhaps also consider other solutions which relieve the load on
> the database while otherwise having no harmful effect on articles?

Are they mututally exclusive approaches?

Cheers
Martin


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