Re: time taking deletion on large tables

From: hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com>
To: Atul Kumar <akumar14871(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin <pgsql-admin(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: time taking deletion on large tables
Date: 2020-12-03 14:51:26
Message-ID: 20201203145126.GA4726@depesz.com
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On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 08:15:06PM +0530, Atul Kumar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The feed_posts table has over 50 Million rows.
>
> When I m deleting all rows of a certain type that are over 60 days old.

The common solution to this problem is to partition, and then, instead
of deleting rows - delete old partitions.

depesz

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