Re: reduce size of table partitioned

Am 27.01.24 um 14:31 schrieb Erik Serrano:
> Dear All,
>
> Good morning, I have a small doubt regarding a partitioned table,
> which has its "mother" table and many "daughter" tables, well the main
> question is... I need to reduce the size of my partitioned table, I
> can simply delete ( drop table) the oldest daughter tables??? or it is
> not recommended....or maybe there is another method to do this??
>
> From already thank you very much
> Greetings
>
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see here:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-partitioning.html#DDL-PARTITIONING-OVERVIEW

Dropping an individual partition using |DROP TABLE|, or doing |ALTER
TABLE DETACH PARTITION|, is far faster than a bulk operation. These
commands also entirely avoid the |VACUUM| overhead caused by a bulk
|DELETE|.

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