On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 9:43 PM, Feed My Lambs Esq. <[email protected]> wrote: > Can someone intimately familiar with the metadatavalue table say whether and > when it is safe to delete values directly out of metadatavalue if the > field_value is empty? Isn't deletion out of that table the only thing that > happens on the administrative edit "Item metadata" page? > I noticed there are various differences to metadatavalue between versions 3 > and 5 so any recommendations on safe deletion may need affixed to a version > number. > > The DB diagram doesn't appear to leave any dangling (metadata_value_id) > foreign keys around for deleted metadatavalue rows but I could be wrong.
I can confirm that directly deleting rows out of metadatavalue won't have any negative side-effects, as log as you don't touch one of a few core fields - dc.title and dc.date.issued. Deleting your custom fields surely won't. As always, make a backup of your database before any direct modification and test extensively. Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/dspace-tech. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
