Title: Update Plugin Destroy my Database ? Why!
Last modified: January 30, 2019

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# Update Plugin Destroy my Database ? Why!

 *  Resolved [muckidee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/muckidee/)
 * (@muckidee)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-plugin-destroy-my-database-why/)
 * Hello,
 * when I update the plugin to the latest version it destroys my database in the
   WP_postmeta. I have to reset my backup what’s going on?

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 *  Plugin Author [Ajay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajay/)
 * (@ajay)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-plugin-destroy-my-database-why/#post-11160987)
 * Could you please explain what do you mean by destroy the database?
 * The only thing the plugin uses the postmeta for is to save the cache. It uses
   WordPress’ inbuilt functions for this purpose and hasn’t changed in a long time
   in how it operates.

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## Tags

 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [MySQL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mysql/)

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 * Last reply from: [Ajay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajay/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/update-plugin-destroy-my-database-why/#post-11160987)
 * Status: resolved