Nikolay and Michael discuss doing massive DELETE operations in Postgres — what can go wrong, how to prevent major issues, and some ideas to minimise their impact. Here are some links to things they mentioned:Article based on Nikolay’s talk, including batching implementation (translated to English) https://habr-com.translate.goog/en/articles/523536/?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hist=true Our episode on WAL and checkpoint tuning https://postgres.fm/episodes/wal-and-checkpoint-tuningEgor Rogov’s book on Postgres Internals (chapter 10 on WAL) https://edu.postgrespro.com/postgresql_internals-14_en.pdf full_page_writes https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-wal.html#GUC-FULL-PAGE-WRITES TRUNCATE https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-truncate.html Our episode on partitioning https://postgres.fm/episodes/partitioning Our episode on bloat https://postgres.fm/episodes/bloat Our episode on index maintenance https://postgres.fm/episodes/index-maintenance ~~~What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc!~~~Postgres FM is brought to you by:Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.aiMichael Christofides, founder of pgMustardWith special thanks to:Jessie Draws for the amazing artwork 

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