The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE

Written by Tom Pang Counterintuitively, large DELETEs add work to the database. From experience we can plainly claim the following: the most scalable Postgres data-deletion strategies revolve around deleting entire tables. Individual row DELETE is fine at a small scale. However, big batch DELETE ope

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