Thanks, the 'database per user' approach seems indeed the most appropriate.

On Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 11:44:30 PM UTC+2, Sean Beckett wrote:
>
> Retention policies are enforced based on the timestamp of the point, not 
> when the point was written. There is no way in the system to drop data 
> based on write time. Presumably you could give each user their own 
> database, or databases, and when the time limit has expired, simply DROP 
> DATABASE.
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Mathias Herberts <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
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>> I was wondering if RPs only took into consideration the timestamps of the 
>> datapoints or if they could be configured to consider the time at which the 
>> data was inserted into the db.
>>
>> My question is to understand how RPs should be enforced for users who 
>> want to insert large historical datasets covering several years but should 
>> not be allowed to keep the data they uploaded past a certain amount of time.
>>
>> If RPs are not the way to go, how could this be done?
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