Ok, more on this.. if you can help me.
I am trying to reduce the size of the data base, since they are pointing to that as an issue (lots of slow queries being logged). It is slow in the "posts" table. Of course, where else.
So, I look at the size of that table and it is > 800MB table. I just pruned 20000 topics and the table size hardly if at all reduced. How do I reduce the size??? Am I missing something?