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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
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To: Kyle <kyle@ccidomain.com>,
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Subject: Re: Best way to delete time stamped data?
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 16:19:41 -0700
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Kyle,

> DELETE FROM ONLY richtable WHERE trxdate < current_timestamp - interval=
=20
> '90 days';
>=20
> This works great.  But I was wondering if there is a better or more=20
> compact way to go about it.  (this method feels "clunky" to me)

More compact than that ?!?!?!=20=20
Maybe you should go into Perl, instead of SQL -- I think the one-liners wou=
ld=20
suit you.

You can use the age() function, but all that funciton does is the same=20
calculation you have above.

--=20
-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
 San Francisco