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The issue you are facing:
I was having some performance issues and during analysis stumbled upon table oc_preferences, because it pooped up as the table with the most reads in the database. The table has 466932 entries and most of them have value ‘ransomware_detection’ (464846).
I have the app ransomware_protection active, but from the description of the app, it does not seem to be related to actual entries in oc_preferences (deactivating the app does also not remove the entries from the table).
Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Y/N):
Steps to replicate it:
- SELECT count(*) FROM public.oc_preferences where appid=‘ransomware_detection’;
- SELECT count(*) FROM public.oc_preferences;
Does anybody know what these entries are for? What would be the implication of removing them from the table (table would shrink to 1% of its current size, which would certainly help with the frequent SQL statement “SELECT “appid”, “configkey”, “configvalue” FROM “oc_preferences” WHERE “userid” = $1” I’m seeing. Have been searching a lot, but did not find anything in this direction.
Thanks a lot in advance!