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From Guillaume Lelarge
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Le jeu. 24 juin 2021 à 16:02, Radoulov, Dimitre <cichomitiko@gmail.com> a écrit :


Am 24.06.21 um 11:08 schrieb Rohit Rajput:
Good day everyone,

I have few tables where i need to delete above 50 million rows each. Since i dont want to delete them all in one shot and block my table for extended time, i am trying to use limit with delete but its giving me error every time. May i please get some assistance here? Thanks

Here is what i am running:

delete from mytable where id in (select id from mytable where condition=true limit 1000);


Wouldn't "delete from mytable where condition=true limit 1000" be sufficient?



That syntax doesn't exist.


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Guillaume.

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