How do I delete a fixed number of rows with sorting in PostgreSQL?

Question

I\'m trying to port some old MySQL queries to PostgreSQL, but I\'m having trouble with this one:

DELETE FROM logtable ORDER BY timestamp LIMIT 10;
         


        

Answer 1

You could write a procedure which loops over the delete for individual lines, the procedure could take a parameter to specify the number of items you want to delete. But that's a bit overkill compared to MySQL.