Title: Overloading postmeta table
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Overloading postmeta table

 *  [timgrahl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timgrahl/)
 * (@timgrahl)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overloading-postmeta-table/)
 * We are using FeedWordPress to pull in excerpts from the various places my client
   writes on the interwebs. Recently the blog stopped working. It wouldn’t load 
   on the homepage or the dedicated /blog page. It also wouldn’t load in the dashboard…
   it would just timeout.
 * When I looked in the database the XXX_postmeta table was extremely bloated. It
   had over 2 million entries. Entries with meta_key = ‘syndication_item_hash’ were
   most of these. After running “DELETE * FROM XXX_postmeta WHERE meta_key LIKE ‘
   syndication_item_hash'” it dropped to 987 and the blog started working again.
 * Any idea why it would be doing this? Thanks for your help! Want to make sure 
   it doesn’t happen again…
 * Tim
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/)

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 *  [talgalili](https://wordpress.org/support/users/talgalili/)
 * (@talgalili)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overloading-postmeta-table/#post-3778887)
 * I suspect that this is the caching of the plugin. I too would wish for it to 
   be in its own table…

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