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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-admin <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL historical database
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 17:51:26 -0500
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On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 1:15 PM Keith Fiske <[email protected]>
wrote:
[snip]

> I would first recommend looking into partitioning for managing data
> retention like this. As Ron says, you'll want to look into the performance
> implications of this, but it allows for the most efficient method of
> removing old data from PostgreSQL and is typically worth the overhead
> costs. Otherwise you're dealing with potentially expensive deletion
> operations and managing bloat vs just detaching/dropping a table.
>

Am I the only person to have ever gotten good DELETE performance from
Postgresql?

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