How can I propagate changes from confluence's postgres database upward into confluence?

Question

I realize that this is a horrible hack, but I really wanted the ability to edit my group's wiki on the command line, and the confluence 4.0 cli did not work for me after many hours of struggling with it.

I used the psql command to connect to Confluence's postgres database directly, and observed that there is a table called bodycontent, which stores the content of wiki pages.

I experimentally changed a new wiki page (using the wiki editor) and verified that the body column of the bodycontent changes to match the new edit.

Next, I used UPDATE TABLE to change the body column for the same entry to some other value. However, I observe that the change is not reflected in the Confluence front end. That is, it still contains the old content.

Does anyone know how to force the change to propagate to the Confluence front end?

Answer 1

Try to flush the Content Bodies cache -- https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/nY0UCg

Confluence is likely to become very angry at you if you continue hacking it this way though :)