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Approaches for deleting unnecessary records from tables

We have a database which stores the temperatures of 20 thermometer every 7 seconds. We want to delete all records in the way that every minute holds just one tempereature instead of 8 which are older ...
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“Truncate” or “Delete/Vacuum Full” for deleting some of the table rows

I have a db which has 223 tables and I have to delete some of the records from 10 of them, each has apprx. 1.5million records. Those tables are storing the temperatures every 7seconds. We have decided ...
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Truncate table is taking too long in PostgreSQL

I have many databases on the same server, all with same templates. When I execute truncate command on exceptions table in each database, it works fine and executes immediately but on database named ...
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PostgreSQL: Disk space not released after TRUNCATE

I haveTRUNCATEd a huge (~120Gb) table called files: TRUNCATE files; VACUUM FULL files; The table size is 0, but no disk space was released. Any ideas how to reclaim my lost disk space? UPDATE: The ...