[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #33764: A permanent auto-draft?
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Mon Sep 7 13:43:41 UTC 2015
#33764: A permanent auto-draft?
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Reporter: luciole135 | Owner:
Type: defect (bug) | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: General | Version: trunk
Severity: normal | Resolution: invalid
Keywords: | Focuses:
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Changes (by swissspidy):
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => invalid
* milestone: Awaiting Review =>
Comment:
Hey there.
Quoting the explanations from an [http://lists.automattic.com/pipermail
/wp-hackers/2012-February/042398.html old wp-hackers thread]:
>Auto-drafts exist because of the fact that multiple users can create new
posts at the same time. If two people enter post-new at roughly the same
moment, then have their first autosaves occur nearly simultaneously, then
there is a race condition that can cause one of them to get back the wrong
post ID, which will cause a post to be overwritten/lost when they then
continue editing the post.
>
>The auto-draft creates the post and gets the ID of the new post before
the editing screen is displayed, thus preventing two simultaneous authors
from accidentally having the same post ID in the data in their browser.
Furthermore:
> Auto-drafts are automatically deleted after 7 days of going unused.
They're self-cleaning, basically. '''No need to worry about them.'''
>
> They also go away when the first auto-save occurs while writing a new
post.
Via: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/44352/how-to-avoid-a
-bunch-of-useless-auto-draft-id-entries-related-in-posts-table-an
Personally I've never seen an install where auto-drafts wouldn't get
deleted after that period of time. Closing this as invalid as it isn't a
bug or an enhancement.
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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/33764#comment:1>
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