Database-wide replace stalls, errors or does nothing
Database-wide replace runs stall, run out of memory, error out or do nothing on large sites.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
6 public reports · first reported 5 March 2023 · last reported 16 October 2025
What's going wrong
Owners running a database-wide text replacement on large sites report several failures: the run hits PHP memory limits even after raising them, bulk replacements spin forever, the tool returns a generic error after minutes, the progress view freezes the browser, and the select-all tables option or the replace button returns nothing.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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