documentation/Database-Information-and-Maintenance.md

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title: Database-Information-and-Maintenance
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published: true
date: 2021-05-23T16:58:27.530Z
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dateCreated: 2021-01-28T20:39:18.631Z
---

Invidious needs one PostgreSQL database which has the following tables.

- `annotations` Caches annotation data if `cache_annotations` is enabled in [`config.yml`](./Configuration)
- `channel_videos` Stores truncated video info, used to create user feeds  
- `channels` Stores UCID and author name  
- `nonces` Keeps track of tokens issued to prevent CSRF  
- `users` Stores user info, such as preferences, username, subscriptions  
- `session_ids` Keeps track of user sessions  
- `videos` Stores video cache, used to create "top" page  

The table `videos` grows a lot and needs the most storage. You can clean it up using following commands:
```bash
$ sudo -i -u postgres
$ psql invidious -c "DELETE FROM nonces * WHERE expire < current_timestamp"
$ psql invidious -c "TRUNCATE TABLE videos"
$ exit
```

For regular maintenance you should add a cronjob for these commands
```bash
@weekly psql invidious -c "DELETE FROM nonces * WHERE expire < current_timestamp" > /dev/null
@weekly psql invidious -c "TRUNCATE TABLE videos" > /dev/null
```