I have some tables with huge data.
The tables have column timestamp and float.
I am try to keep up to 6 day of data values.
What I do is execute SQL below from crontab (UNIX to
schedule commands).
BEGIN;
DELETE FROM table_1 WHERE column_time < ('now'::timestamp - '6
days'::interval);
.....
DELETE FROM table_n WHERE column_time < ('now'::timestamp - '6
days'::interval);
COMMIT;
Everything is running fine, except take long time to finish.
Because some tables stored values from 50,000 to 100,000 rows
Some deletion need to deleted up to 45,000 rows.
So I am thinking just delete the rows by their row number or row ID,
like
DELETE FROM a_table WHERE row_id < 45000;
I know there is row_id in Oracle.
Is there row_id for a table in Postgres?
Thank Q!
