From: Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah@trade-india.com>
Organization: Infocom Network Limited
To: josh@agliodbs.com, Kyle <kyle@ccidomain.com>,
	Forum - PostGreSQL SQL <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Best way to delete time stamped data?
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 15:26:21 +0530
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an index on age(date(trxdate)) would make it faster ?

regds
mallah.

On Saturday 03 May 2003 4:49 am, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Kyle,
>
> > DELETE FROM ONLY richtable WHERE trxdate < current_timestamp - interval
> > '90 days';
> >
> > This works great.  But I was wondering if there is a better or more
> > compact way to go about it.  (this method feels "clunky" to me)
>
> More compact than that ?!?!?!
> Maybe you should go into Perl, instead of SQL -- I think the one-liners
> would suit you.
>
> You can use the age() function, but all that funciton does is the same
> calculation you have above.

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