467785 - Provide a button to trigger database maintenance

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

bug 431558 introduces a new module to prevent database corruption. As of the latest patch there the maintenance is triggered on an idle timer. There should be a way for a user to trigger the maintenance manually should his/her database become corrupted.

Comment 1

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

WONTFIX?  This sounds like addon material to me as this won't need to be done by most users ever.

Comment 2

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

Well the only reason I proposed this was because of the mass reports of database corruption, and since the module is being included anyhow, why not make it somewhat accessible to an end user, so that the answer to database corruption won't be "open your browser and leave it alone for 10 minutes".

Comment 3

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

The database corruption that is being reported wouldn't be fixed by this...

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

this goes with the "provide a compact database button", so i would say not WONTFIX for now, until we get a decision on both of them.

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

not late-l10n for now though, since this is not targetted

Comment 6

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

I *really* *really* think we don't want to expose our users to this

Comment 7

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This seems like an enhancement.

Comment 8

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

>I *really* *really* think we don't want to expose our users to this

Yes, I really agree, which makes for a whole lot of reallys.  I'm reminded of the "Force Garbage Collection" button in Eclipse's about window.  Whatever we need to do fix user's database, we need to do it automatically and transparently.  Something that never breaks is obviously a lot better than having a "don't be so broken" button for people to hit.

Comment 9

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h".

In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows:
Tools | Message Filters
Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New"
Conditions: Body   contains   places-to-b-and-h
Change the action to "Delete Message".
Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top.
Click OK.

Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter.

Gerv