Re: Best way to delete time stamped data? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Best way to delete time stamped data?
Date
Msg-id 200305021619.41879.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Best way to delete time stamped data?  (Kyle <kyle@ccidomain.com>)
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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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-Josh BerkusAglio Database SolutionsSan Francisco



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