In response to Juan Backson : > Hi, > > I am using Postgres to store CDR data for voip switches. The data size quickly > goes about a few TBs. > > What I would like to do is to be able to regularly archive the oldest data so > only the most recent 6 months of data is available. > > All those old data will be stored in a format that can be retrieved back either > into DB table or flat files. > > Does anyone know how should I go about doing that? Is there any existing tool > that can already do that? Sounds like table partitioning: create, for instance, a table for each month and DROP old tables after 6 month or so. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/ddl-partitioning.html Regards, Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG: 0x31720C99, 1006 CCB4 A326 1D42 6431 2EB0 389D 1DC2 3172 0C99 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
