time taking deletion on large tables - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Atul Kumar
Subject time taking deletion on large tables
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Msg-id CA+ONtZ7RTPhQraWw13Dr06HqCU5LZxkBPopYoPam84kNw_RwCg@mail.gmail.com
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Responses Re: time taking deletion on large tables  (hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz@depesz.com>)
Re: time taking deletion on large tables  (Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>)
Re: time taking deletion on large tables  (Rui DeSousa <rui@crazybean.net>)
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Hi,

The feed_posts table has over 50 Million rows.

When I m deleting all rows of a certain type that are over 60 days old.

When I try to do a delete like this:  it hangs for an entire day, so I
need to kill it with pg_terminate_backend(pid).

DELETE FROM feed_posts
WHERE feed_definition_id = 'bf33573d-936e-4e55-8607-72b685d2cbae'
AND created_at > '2020-05-11 00:00:00'
AND created_at < '2020-05-12 00:00:00';

So– I need help in figuring out how to do large deletes on a
production database during normal hours.

explain plan is given below



"Delete on feed_posts (cost=1156.57..195748.88 rows=15534 width=6)"
" -> Bitmap Heap Scan on feed_posts (cost=1156.57..195748.88
rows=15534 width=6)"
" Recheck Cond: ((created_at >= '2020-05-11 00:00:00'::timestamp
without time zone) AND (created_at <= '2020-05-12 00:00:00'::timestamp
without time zone))"
" Filter: (feed_definition_id = 'bf33573d-936e-4e55-8607-72b685d2cbae'::uuid)"
" -> Bitmap Index Scan on feed_posts_created_at (cost=0.00..1152.68
rows=54812 width=0)"
" Index Cond: ((created_at >= '2020-05-11 00:00:00'::timestamp without
time zone) AND (created_at <= '2020-05-12 00:00:00'::timestamp without
time zone))"


please help me on deleting the rows, Do I need to anything in postgres
configuration ?
or in table structure ?





Regards,
Atul



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