Delete old Historical Records

[cleder]

To keep the history growing too much I'd like to have a function that deletes all historical records older than x days. So the function can be reused in a management command or a celery task

[robmoorman]

Also the ability to delete old record via the admin would be nice.

[michael54]

👍

[macro1]

This might go without saying, but doing this with the ORM is pretty easy:

MyModel.history.filter(history_date__lt=timezone.now() - timedelta(days=90)).delete()

That should delete all historical records older than 90 days. You could also filter on history_type if there was a reason to keep deletions around for audit purposes.

[nikechristo]

If django-simple-history can self-manage by having the ability to delete old history records, that would be very useful.

[rossmechanic]

Being addressed in #483

[rossmechanic]

Dupe of #313