From: | "John Roberts" <jsrober(at)hotmail(dot)com> |
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To: | "'A(dot) Kretschmer'" <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com>, <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: How to delete the oldest X number of rows? |
Date: | 2005-12-13 02:28:04 |
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Thank you! That works beautifully!
John
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Subject: Re: [NOVICE] How to delete the oldest X number of rows?
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am 12.12.2005, um 11:29:58 -0500 mailte John Roberts folgendes:
> Hi,
>
> I have a table that logs the performance of a system. I get an entry in
> this table each time the system does something.
>
> I want to keep the last 50,000 rows in the table. I'd like to run a cron
> job every 5 minutes that will delete all rows > 50,000, oldest first.
> What's the most efficient way to do this query/delete?
>
> DELETE FROM log WHERE timestamp < ????
Something like:
select timestamp from log order by timestamp limit 1 offset 49999;
to get the oldest timestamp to keep and delete the early rows?
*untestet*
delete from fol where timestamp < (select timestamp from log order by
timestamp limit 1 offset 49999);
HTH, Andreas
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