Laravel chunk and delete

Question

I have a large number of items (1M+) that i want to delete from a database, i fork a background job to take care of that, so that the user won\'t have to wait for it to finish t

Answer 1

If i understand correctly, the issue is that deleting a large amount of entries takes too much ressources. doing it one post at a time will take too long too.

try getting the min and the max of post.id then chunk on those like

for($i = $minId; $i <= $maxId-1000; $i+1000) {
    Post::where('arch_id', $posts_archive->id)->whereBetween('id', [$i, $i+1000])->delete();
    sleep(2);
}

customize the chunk and the sleep period as it suites your server ressources.