Documentation for Confluence 2.5.4 - 2.5.8.
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Pre-1.1 Confluence would add an extra copy of an index/constraint on a confluence database table every time the server was restarted. This has caused some users to run into memory problems such as CONF-1204 when the maximum limit of indexes per table has been reached.

To check if this problem exists in your installation, first open up a console window to your database.

For MySQL users, run: 

	
     > show index from CONTENT;

You can verify this problem exists if you notice multiple indexes referencing the same column name like the following: 

BLOGSPACEID is duplicated by BLOGSPACEID_2 and both reference the BLOGSPACEID column

+---------+------------+---------------+--------------+-------------+
| Table   | Non_unique | Key_name      | Seq_in_index | Column_name |
+---------+------------+---------------+--------------+-------------+
| CONTENT |          0 | PRIMARY       |            1 | CONTENTID   |
| CONTENT |          1 | BLOGSPACEID   |            1 | BLOGSPACEID |
| CONTENT |          1 | PAGEID        |            1 | PAGEID      |
| CONTENT |          1 | PARENTID      |            1 | PARENTID    |
| CONTENT |          1 | PREVVER       |            1 | PREVVER     |
| CONTENT |          1 | SPACEID       |            1 | SPACEID     |
| CONTENT |          1 | DESCSPACEID   |            1 | DESCSPACEID |
| CONTENT |          1 | BLOGSPACEID_2 |            1 | BLOGSPACEID |
| CONTENT |          1 | PAGEID_2      |            1 | PAGEID      |
| CONTENT |          1 | PARENTID_2    |            1 | PARENTID    |
| CONTENT |          1 | PREVVER_2     |            1 | PREVVER     |
| CONTENT |          1 | SPACEID_2     |            1 | SPACEID     |
| CONTENT |          1 | DESCSPACEID_2 |            1 | DESCSPACEID |                                                          
+---------+------------+---------------+--------------+-------------+

For PostgreSQL users, run: 

     > \d content;

You can verify this problem exists if you get lots of RI_ConstraintTriggers being displayed like the following:

Example: 
Triggers: RI_ConstraintTrigger_214459,
          RI_ConstraintTrigger_214460,
          RI_ConstraintTrigger_214465,
          RI_ConstraintTrigger_214466,
          RI_ConstraintTrigger_214468,
          RI_ConstraintTrigger_214469,
          RI_ConstraintTrigger_214482,
          RI_ConstraintTrigger_214483,
          RI_ConstraintTrigger_214484,

If you observe this in your database, you can fix the problem by performing the following:

  1. backup your existing confluence home directory and database
  2. upgrade to confluence 1.1
  3. login to Confluence
  4. goto Administration > Backup & Restore
  5. perform a backup by clicking the "Backup" button
  6. when the backup completes, download it (use the click "here" link)
  7. now go back to the Administration > Backup & Restore page
  8. restore the backup you have just made
  9. If you are using MySQL continue with the next 3 steps. Else skip to the end.
  10. shutdown confluence
  11. open up the confluence.cfg.xml file in your confluence home directory
  12. locate the line 
    <property name="hibernate.dialect">net.sf.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
    and change it to: 
    <property name="hibernate.dialect">bucket.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
  13. now start up Confluence





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