Re: reduce size of table partitioned

Thanks Holger,

Greetings

*Erik R. Serrano Saavedra*
*Ingeniero de Sistemas Informáticos*
* Data Base Administrator*

* eserranos(at)gmail(dot)com <eserranos(at)gmail(dot)com>*
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El sáb, 27 ene 2024 a las 11:00, Holger Jakobs (<holger(at)jakobs(dot)com>)
escribió:

> 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
>
>
> *Erik R. Serrano Saavedra*
> *Ingeniero de Sistemas Informáticos*
> * Data Base Administrator*
>
> * eserranos(at)gmail(dot)com <eserranos(at)gmail(dot)com> *
> * 998596691*
>
> 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.
>
> -- Holger Jakobs, Bergisch Gladbach, Tel. +49-178-9759012
>