diff --git a/.docker/docker-compose.yml b/.docker/docker-compose.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 1a63292b080f182821935cb5b20b7500bfcf8f63..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/.docker/docker-compose.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-version: '3.6'
-services:
-  sqldb:
-    image: mariadb:10.5
-    volumes:
-      - type: volume
-        source: "caosdb-sqldata"
-        target: /var/lib/mysql
-    environment:
-      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: caosdb1234
-    networks:
-      # available on port 3306, host name 'sqldb'
-      - caosnet
-    ports:
-      - 3306:3306
-
-
-# A well-defined network for caosdb
-volumes:
-    caosdb-sqldata:
-networks:
-  caosnet:
-    driver: bridge
diff --git a/README_SETUP.md b/README_SETUP.md
index 4eb3ec02eab4bf22f14f4bcc2fef758763cf2de8..95f975d031ded904b2656230f5ec72d98447a7b6 100644
--- a/README_SETUP.md
+++ b/README_SETUP.md
@@ -87,18 +87,6 @@ with the then current version of the stored entities.
     * Alternatively, to run the tests in a containerized MariaDB instance, run `make test-docker`,
       followed by `make test-docker-stop`.
 
-
-### Running in a Docker Container
-You can use `.docker/docker-compose.yml` to start a docker container
-(`docker-compose -f .docker/docker-compose.yml up -d`) that runs
-mariadb and you can connect to it with 
-`mariadb -h localhost -P3306 -u caosdb -prandom1234 caosdb`. You need appropriate
-settings in `.config`.
-Due to [a Bug](https://gitlab.com/linkahead/linkahead-mariadbbackend/-/issues/33)
-`MYSQL_CMD="mariadb -h localhost -P3306"` and
-`DATABASE_USER_HOST_LIST=%,`
-
-
 ### Troubleshooting
 
 #### MySQL has failing tests
diff --git a/procedures/query/applyPOV.sql b/procedures/query/applyPOV.sql
index f0d8777725fe2b6fa22ad32192a7860d4ec2fa6e..d1d846784a5861237ef710fe90c40f42ef9c6d11 100644
--- a/procedures/query/applyPOV.sql
+++ b/procedures/query/applyPOV.sql
@@ -34,16 +34,13 @@ DELIMITER //
  * ----------
  *
  * versioned : boolean
- * If True, sourceSet and targetSet have an _iversion column, otherwise that column will be ignored
- * (or only HEAD will be inserted into targetSet).
-
-
- TODO description of sourceSet and targetSet is insufficient!
+ *   If True, sourceSet and targetSet have an _iversion column, otherwise that column will be
+*    ignored (or only HEAD will be inserted into targetSet).
  */
 CREATE PROCEDURE db_5_0.applyPOV(in sourceSet VARCHAR(255), /* (?) Name of the table that the POV will be applied to. This can be a temporary table. */
                                  in targetSet VARCHAR(255), /* (?) Name of the result table of this POV. */
                                  in propertiesTable VARCHAR(255),
-                                 in refIdsTable VARCHAR(255), /* (?) Name of a tmp table that contains all ids of children of the value interpreted as entity */
+                                 in refIdsTable VARCHAR(255),
                                  in o CHAR(4), /* The operator for this operation. can be one of:
                                                     0   check for "equals NULL"
                                                     !0  check for "not NULL"
@@ -84,19 +81,6 @@ POV_LABEL: BEGIN
     DECLARE keepTabl VARCHAR(255) DEFAULT NULL;
     DECLARE existence_op VARCHAR(255) DEFAULT "EXISTS";
 
-	select NOW(6) into @time;
-	SET @tmpquery = CONCAT('SELECT * FROM `', refIdsTable, '` into outfile "/tmp/stuff', now(0),'"');
-	PREPARE stmt FROM @tmpquery;
-	EXECUTE stmt;
-	SET @tmpquery2 = CONCAT('insert into povtimes (SELECT now(0), count(*), 0 FROM `', propertiesTable , '`)');
-	PREPARE stmt2 FROM @tmpquery2;
-	EXECUTE stmt2;
-
-	insert into povtimes (select now(0), "Beginning", timediff(NOW(6),@time) as time_passed);
-        #-- ######### HINT ##############
-        #-- first the appropriate statement is created which in the end prepared and executed
-        #-- #############################
-
     IF o = '->' THEN
         #-- special case: pure reference property
         call applyRefPOV(sourceSet,targetSet, propertiesTable, refIdsTable, versioned);
@@ -245,8 +229,6 @@ POV_LABEL: BEGIN
             IF o = "!=" AND refIdsTable IS NOT NULL THEN
                 SET existence_op = "NOT EXISTS";
             END IF;
-			/* select all entities that reference the entity or a child of the
-			 * value interpreted as ID*/
             SET sRefData = IF(vText IS NULL,
                 ' UNION ALL SELECT DISTINCT domain_id, entity_id, property_id FROM `reference_data`',
                 IF(refIdsTable IS NULL,
@@ -261,9 +243,6 @@ POV_LABEL: BEGIN
 
     END IF;
 
-	
-	insert into povtimes (select now(0), "data string assembled", timediff(NOW(6),@time) as time_passed);
-    #-- create array of statement parts (and replace null with empty string) (?)
     SET data = CONCAT('(',sTextData,
                 IF(sNameData IS NULL, '', sNameData),
                 IF(sEnumData IS NULL, '', sEnumData),
@@ -278,10 +257,8 @@ POV_LABEL: BEGIN
 
 
     call createTmpTable(keepTabl, versioned);
-	insert into povtimes (select now(0),  "created tmptable ", timediff(NOW(6),@time) as time_passed);
     IF versioned THEN
         #-- generate statement from statement parts
-        #--  (versioned section)
         SET @stmtPOVkeepTblStr = CONCAT(
             'INSERT IGNORE INTO `', keepTabl, '` (id, _iversion) SELECT entity_id AS id, _iversion FROM ', data,
             ' as data', IF(propertiesTable IS NULL, '', CONCAT(
@@ -322,15 +299,7 @@ POV_LABEL: BEGIN
         DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmtPOVkeepTbl;
     ELSE
         #-- generate statement from statement parts
-        #--  (unversioned section)
-        SET @stmtPOVkeepTblStr = CONCAT('INSERT IGNORE INTO `', keepTabl, '` (id)
-			SELECT DISTINCT entity_id AS id FROM ', data, ' as data',
-			    IF(propertiesTable IS NULL, 
-					'',
-					/* restrict to properties  with one of the appropriate ids
-					 * and where the domain (???) equals the entity*/
-					CONCAT(' WHERE EXISTS (Select 1 from `', propertiesTable, '` AS prop
-							WHERE prop.id = data.property_id AND (prop.id2=data.entity_id OR prop.id2=0))')));
+        SET @stmtPOVkeepTblStr = CONCAT('INSERT IGNORE INTO `', keepTabl, '` (id) SELECT DISTINCT entity_id AS id FROM ', data, ' as data', IF(propertiesTable IS NULL, '', CONCAT(' WHERE EXISTS (Select 1 from `', propertiesTable, '` AS prop WHERE prop.id = data.property_id AND (prop.id2=data.entity_id OR prop.id2=0))')));
 
         SET @stmtPOVStr = CONCAT(
                 IF(targetSet IS NULL,
@@ -351,23 +320,19 @@ POV_LABEL: BEGIN
         #-- prepare and execute
         PREPARE stmt3 FROM @stmtPOVStr;
         PREPARE stmtPOVkeepTbl FROM @stmtPOVkeepTblStr;
-		insert into povtimes (select now(0), "statements prepared ", timediff(NOW(6),@time) as time_passed);
         IF vText IS NULL THEN
             EXECUTE stmtPOVkeepTbl;
         ELSE
             SET @vText = vText;
             EXECUTE stmtPOVkeepTbl USING @vText, @vText, @vText;
         END IF;
-		insert into povtimes (select now(0), "first execute ", timediff(NOW(6),@time) as time_passed);
         EXECUTE stmt3;
-		insert into povtimes (select now(0),  "second execute ", timediff(NOW(6),@time) as time_passed);
         DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt3;
         DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmtPOVkeepTbl;
     END IF;
 
     SELECT @stmtPOVkeepTblStr as applyPOVStmt1, @stmtPOVStr as applyPOVStmt2, keepTabl as applyPOVIntermediateResultSet;
 
-	insert into povtimes (select now(0),  "end ", timediff(NOW(6),@time) as time_passed);
 
 END;
 //