[TYPO3-english] Clearing cache_extentions in typo3 DB

[Christian Kuhn]

On 05/17/2011 03:40 PM, Bing van Moorsel | Idar Creative wrote:
> Our question:
> Is there an easy way to clear this table? i did some googling but still
> couldn't find out the best way to deal with this cache?

Why should one want to clear cache_extensions manually?
- This table is a 'cache' table for TER extension list, it is only used 
in the extension manager and not on a regular basis in FE or BE access.
- It just holds a list of all extensions and extension versions in TER 
and it is read and updated by 'update extension list from TER' in 
extension manager.
- It currently takes <= 10MB of space, this in no problem for your 
hosting, is it? It is seldom used, so it also shouldn't be a problem for 
mysql caches and so on.
- There is no need to clear this table, its content is transparently 
taken care of by the em.

All in all there is imho no point in an option/functionality to clear 
this table. Did I missed something?

Regards
Christian