Even after disabling + deleting the plugin, humongous database table remains

  • Resolved Sabinooo

    (@sabinooo)


    4 years, 8 months ago

    Hello,

    I’m here to report improper behaviour from the plugin, but maybe it is a bug:

    I deactivated and then deleted that plugin from my wordpress blog, because I realize I never used it in a whole year.

    But to my surprise, the table “wp_ualp_user_activity” persisted in my blog’s database. And it’s no small remains, 180 MB of data, no less.

    So, here’s for either my complaint (it’s wrong to do that) or bug report (if the plugin was supposed to clean after itself, but failed to do so because of a bug), the report is done.

    Have a good day!

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  • Plugin Contributor Sanjay Dabhoya

    (@sanjaydabhoya)

    Hi @sabinooo,

    Sorry for the inconvenience caused to you.
    But this is no rule that data from the database must be deleted on deletion of plugin. We have not deleted as if user wants to install it again, he does not loose his old data.
    Still we will add this thing in future version of our plugin.

    Thank you and regards.

    Thread Starter Sabinooo

    (@sabinooo)

    Hello Sanjay, thanks for hearing my complaint. I hope it didn’t come as rude, that was a bad day with lots of chores, I should have voiced it in a better manner.

    I was strongly convinced that was an *official* requirement, that plugins would fully have to clean after themselves in the process of their deletion from the admin, while apparently, that was just a courtesy on the behalf of the ones who did it? I wouldn’t have thought!

    Maybe, constructive criticism, offer the option to cap the amount of data that is stored to database, with an automatic purge of the oldest elements once the cap is reached?

    Plugin Contributor Sanjay Dabhoya

    (@sanjaydabhoya)

    Hi @sabinooo,

    In our plugin, there is an option to delete all log activities.
    Also there is an option ‘keep log for’ using which old activity log will be removed automatically.
    Check below screenshot for more detail.
    https://nimb.ws/W7btCp

    Thank you

    Plugin Contributor Sanjay Dabhoya

    (@sanjaydabhoya)

    Hi @sabinooo

    I have solved your problem via WordPress slack Channel communication so I am d closing this thread.
    If you have further query feel free to create new support thread.

    Thank you

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