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Problem with _purge that it was not documented. That means this was not 
well tested.

Thanks.
> To me it seems exactly the same, but I'm not an expert.
>
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Robert Newson<rnewson@apache.org>  wrote:
>
>> I said 'better' not 'good'. :)
>>
>> On 2 March 2012 20:20, Mark Hahn<mark@hahnca.com>  wrote:
>>>>   A better solution is to periodically switch to a new database and then
>>> delete the old one (when those sessions are ended).
>>>
>>> How is that any different than purging?  It also kills replication.