[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #18800: Recycle auto-draft post entries

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#18800: Recycle auto-draft post entries
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 Reporter:  MattyRob                 |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement              |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal                   |   Milestone:
Component:  General                  |     Version:  3.2.1
 Severity:  normal                   |  Resolution:  invalid
 Keywords:  has-patch needs-testing  |
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Changes (by markjaquith):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => invalid
 * milestone:  Awaiting Review =>


Comment:

 MattyRob — the issue you originally reported is invalid — it's not true.
 Auto-drafts are used if you then go on to populate that post item. The
 only ones that are "wasted" are the ones that, after 7 days, have not been
 populated with data.

 The issue with any sort of recycling is that you can't guarantee a lock.
 Who gets to recycle it? What if two requests try to recycle the same item?
 We have enough race conditions in WordPress. I'm not eager to introduce
 another.

 Your objection seems to be an aesthetic objection to something that is
 fairly well abstracted. The rows are cleaned up, on a rolling basis. This
 is invisible to the user. Our audience is users, not people who peer at
 the database directly. The only lasting remnant is the incrementing of the
 post ID. We're still a ways off from risking hitting that limit of
 2,147,483,647. I still haven't even hit 6 digits on my blog. Barely have
 hit 5.

 Switching to this system solved a bunch of bugs, simplified our code, and
 has guaranteed that we'll never see a post-creation race condition. That's
 a real savings in terms of effort and frustration reduction. It'd take
 more than an aesthetic objection for us to consider compromising those
 gains.

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