Entities Excision doesn’t take effect

[jaret]

Cross posting my reply on the other thread:

Entities Excision doesn't take effect

@Devyn Datomic On-prem’s Excision is unsuitable for the error-correcting task, as it does not restore any prior view of the facts. It’s also not suitable as a disk size cleanup and should be used sparingly as excision will put a substantial burden on background indexing. https://docs.datomic.com/on-prem/excision.html space did not free up Is your goal here to clear up space or to removing data for privacy reasons/removing data older than some domain-defined retention period? If your goal…