Goal Determine whether Drupal core's automatic database log pruning can remove messages from a failed deployment before an administrator reviews the Recent log entries report. Constraints and uncertainty The dblog module retains a configurable maximum number of entries and deletes older entries during cron. The default limit, administration path, and pruning
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