Re: [SQL] Best way to delete time stamped data? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: [SQL] Best way to delete time stamped data?
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Msg-id 20030504113029.W66185@flake.decibel.org
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In response to Re: [SQL] Best way to delete time stamped data?  (Kyle <kyle@ccidomain.com>)
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On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 09:09:05AM -0400, Kyle wrote:
> Josh,
>
> Thanks, even my boss can read the new statement:
>
> DELETE FROM ONLY richtable WHERE age(trxdate) > '90 days';

Just remember that that query won't use any index on trxdate, because
it has to calculate 'age(trxdate)' for every value in the table.
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