PurgeRedundantText should delete rows from content or slots tables
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	Mar 21 2025, 5:49 AM

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The PurgeRedundantText function deletes rows in the text table not referenced by the content table, however nothing deletes the content or slots rows that are orphaned and thus text rows never become orphaned. This means that running scripts like nukePage.php or deletOldRevsions.php that call this don't actually delete the content from the database, which kind of defeats the point ...

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Pppery created this task.Mar 21 2025, 5:49 AM

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Pppery renamed this task from PurgeRedundantText doesn't delete intermediary tables to PurgeRedundantText should delete rows from content or slots tables.Mar 21 2025, 5:50 AM

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Pppery moved this task from Backlog to purgeRedundantText on the MediaWiki-Maintenance-system board.

Pppery closed this task as a duplicate of T271635: purgeRedundantText (and hence deleteArchivedRevisions and other scripts that call it) does not remove rows in `content` and `slots` tables, which prevents it from detecting `text` rows are orphaned.Mar 21 2025, 5:52 AM

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