On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Jerry Champlin <jchamplin@absolute-performance.com> wrote: > You may want to consider using partitioning. That way you can drop the > appropriate partition and never have the overhead of a delete.
Hum, I don't think it's doable in my case; the partitioning is not know a priori. First t1 is fully populated, then the data is loaded and manipulated by my application, the result is stored in t2; only then I want to remove (part of) the data from t1.
thanks, Luca
It's a shame there isn't a LIMIT option on DELETE so this can be done in small batches.