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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l18&quot; &gt;Line 18:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;:'''storageinfo'''&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;:'''storageinfo'''&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;:'''hitinfo'''&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;:'''hitinfo'''&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;−&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;:&lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;''&lt;/del&gt;'''costinfo&lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;''&lt;/del&gt;''' (not available in our current dCache instances)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;:'''costinfo''' (not available in our current dCache instances)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* Delete information of these tables as follows:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* Delete information of these tables as follows:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;  delete from billinginfo where datestamp&amp;lt;current_date-interval '6 months';&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;  delete from billinginfo where datestamp&amp;lt;current_date-interval '6 months';&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<author><name>Mcaubet</name></author>
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		<title>Mcaubet at 09:29, 7 August 2015</title>
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				&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot; class=&quot;diff-lineno&quot; id=&quot;mw-diff-left-l18&quot; &gt;Line 18:&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;:'''hitinfo'''&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;:'''hitinfo'''&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* Delete information of these tables as follows:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* Delete information of these tables as follows:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;  delete from billinginfo where datestamp&amp;lt;current_date-interval '6 months';&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;  delete from billinginfo where datestamp&amp;lt;current_date-interval '6 months';&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;  delete from hitinfo     where datestamp&amp;lt;current_date-interval '6 months';&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;  delete from hitinfo     where datestamp&amp;lt;current_date-interval '6 months';&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;  delete from costinfo    where datestamp&amp;lt;current_date-interval '6 months';&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;  delete from costinfo    where datestamp&amp;lt;current_date-interval '6 months';&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;−&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;:If needed, you can changes the number of months to be deleted from 6 to &lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;another &lt;/del&gt;value.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;:If needed, you can changes the number of months to be deleted from 6 to &lt;ins class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;a different &lt;/ins&gt;value.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Mcaubet: Created page with &quot;= About billing = * Billing contains two ways in order to record all historic information: :* Logfiles located in: '''dcip.pic.es:/var/lib/dcache/billing/''' :* Database locat...&quot;</title>
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		<updated>2015-08-07T09:28:52Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;quot;= About billing = * Billing contains two ways in order to record all historic information: :* Logfiles located in: &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;dcip.pic.es:/var/lib/dcache/billing/&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; :* Database locat...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;= About billing =&lt;br /&gt;
* Billing contains two ways in order to record all historic information:&lt;br /&gt;
:* Logfiles located in: '''dcip.pic.es:/var/lib/dcache/billing/'''&lt;br /&gt;
:* Database located in: '''dcip.pic.es:/var/lib/pgsql/'''&lt;br /&gt;
= Motivation =&lt;br /&gt;
* Billing database use to grow very fast.&lt;br /&gt;
* Sometimes, during a dCache upgrade (mostly on major release upgrades) a schema update is needed&lt;br /&gt;
:* How much greater is the database much longer will be the schema update.&lt;br /&gt;
* '''We need to decrease the database size by periodically deleting data'''&lt;br /&gt;
:* Or '''otherwise we can startup a database from the scratch''' by moving the old database to a historic instance and running the schema update on a fresh billing database&lt;br /&gt;
::Please refer to '''[[HowTo: Reset Billing PostgreSQL]]''' if you decide to startup a database from a scratch by keeping a backup of the old database.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
= Deleting old information =&lt;br /&gt;
* We can reduce the size of the billing database by deleting records from the last ''X'' months.&lt;br /&gt;
* We should mostly delete information from the following tables:&lt;br /&gt;
:'''billinginfo'''&lt;br /&gt;
:'''doorinfo'''&lt;br /&gt;
:'''storageinfo'''&lt;br /&gt;
:'''hitinfo'''&lt;br /&gt;
:''costinfo'' (not available in our current dCache instances)&lt;br /&gt;
* Delete information of these tables as follows:&lt;br /&gt;
 delete from billinginfo where datestamp&amp;lt;current_date-interval '6 months';&lt;br /&gt;
 delete from doorinfo    where datestamp&amp;lt;current_date-interval '6 months';&lt;br /&gt;
 delete from storageinfo where datestamp&amp;lt;current_date-interval '6 months';&lt;br /&gt;
 delete from hitinfo     where datestamp&amp;lt;current_date-interval '6 months';&lt;br /&gt;
 delete from costinfo    where datestamp&amp;lt;current_date-interval '6 months';&lt;br /&gt;
:If needed, you can changes the number of months to be deleted from 6 to another value.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Mcaubet</name></author>
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