Re: [PERFORM] make bulk deletes faster?

2005-12-19 Thread James Klo
Mitch Skinner wrote: Have you considered partitioning? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/ddl-partitioning.html If you can partition your timeblock table so that you archive an entire partition at a time, then you can delete the archived rows by just dropping (or truncating) that p

Re: [PERFORM] make bulk deletes faster?

2005-12-19 Thread James Klo
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Fuhr) wrote: > On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 09:10:40PM -0800, James Klo wrote: > > I'd like some suggestions on how to get the deletes to happen faster, as > > while deleting individually appears to extremely fast

[PERFORM] make bulk deletes faster?

2005-12-17 Thread James Klo
I have the following table: CREATE TABLE timeblock ( timeblockid int8 NOT NULL, starttime timestamp, endtime timestamp, duration int4, blocktypeid int8, domain_id int8, create_date timestamp, revision_date timestamp, scheduleid int8, CONSTRAINT timeblock_pkey PRIMARY KEY (timeb