[TYPO3] clearing site index

[Christian Lerrahn]

Hi,
> I have a site that has - over time - accumulated about 300 megs of index 
> data. I'd now like to clear this index but if I try doing this in the 
> backend, I'll just get the server busy for minutes, even if I don't go 
> to the tree root. As I want to clear all cache anyway, I thought, I 
> could just do this in th database. However, before I do this, I have one 
> question, that I want to be sure about first.
> 
> Is it safe to flush all tables with names starting with index_?

Hm, as I screwed up my database when trying to flush one of those 
tables, I've now taking the risk to flush all of the tables mentioned. 
So far everything looks fine. :-)

Cheers,
Christian