On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Michael Graham <mgraham@bloxx.com> wrote:
Hi all,
We partition the data in postgres in a per-month basis and run a script to delete old partitions.
Does "delete" = "drop"?
Sometimes this script fails and the delete doesn't happen because of a deadlock, today I noticed that it was the autovacuumer that fighting with the script.
Are you uninheriting the partition before attempting to get rid of it? Eg.
ALTER TABLE your_partition NO INHERIT the_parent_table;