# How can I remove post history?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-remove-post-history/50010>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [September 12, 2016, 12:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-remove-post-history/50010 "2016-09-12T12:30:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2016, 12:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-remove-post-history/50010/3 "2016-09-13T00:41:53Z")

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I don’t believe that is that @bek is asking. He mentioned disk usage, hiding a revision doesn’t do that, it just removes it from the client view for non-staff users.

That being said, I don’t believe this would be possible without accessing the database.

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