Re: How many records to delete ?

shulkae wrote:
> I am writing a shell script which runs as a cron entry. The objective
> is to delete older records from postgresql DB.
>
> I have thousands of records. What is the optimum number of records to
> delete in one delete command
>

as many as you need to,

DELETE FROM yourtable AS t
WHERE CURRENT_DATE - t.recorddate < INTERVAL '90 days';

or whatever. pooof, all records over that given parameter are deleted,
about as efficiently as can be. of course, as always, the space
doesn't get reclaimed until that table is vacuumed.