django database delete specific number of entries

django, django-database, python

Solution

You could do it like this:

pks = (Statusmessages.objects
       .filter(time__lt=date)
       .values_list('pk')[:30000])
Statusmessages.objects.filter(pk__in=pks).delete()

Problem

How to delete specific number of entries from the database? I did something like this ``` EntriesToDelete=Statusmessages.objects.filter(time__lt=date)[:30000] EntriesToDelete.delete() ``` But I get an error which says: `AssertionError. Cannot use 'limit' or 'offset' with delete`. How can I specify the number of entries to be deleted.

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