On Wednesday 14 April 2010, Jan Krcmar <honza801@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > You might consider partitioning this table by date, either by day or by
> > week, and instead of deleting old rows, drop entire old partitions
>
> this is not really good workaround...
Actually it's a very good workaround, that a lot of people use for exactly
this purpose. It's a lot less disk I/O than delete+vacuum even when you're
not experiencing bloat.