diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 02b04da..b13fad1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -126,6 +126,24 @@ for task, id_ in taskqueue:
 
 If the consumer crashes (i.e. the task is not marked as completed after lease_timeout seconds), the task will be put back into the task queue. This rescheduling will happen at most ttl times and then the task will be dropped. A callback can be provided if you want to monitor such cases.
 
+As the tasks are completed, they will remain in the `task_queue`
+postgres table. The table will be deleted of its content if
+initializing a `TaskQueue` instance with the `reset` flag to `true` 
+or if using the `prune_completed_tasks` method:
+
+```py
+from postgrestq import TaskQueue
+
+# If reset=True, the full queue content will be deleted
+task_queue = TaskQueue(POSTGRES_CONN_STR, queue_name, reset=False)
+
+# Prune all tasks from queue completed more than 3 hours ago,
+# tasks in progress, not started and completed recently will 
+# stay in the postgres task_queue table
+task_queue.prune_completed_tasks(3)
+
+```
+
 ## Running the tests
 
 The tests will check a presence of an Postgres DB in the port 15432. To initiate one using docker you can run:
diff --git a/postgrestq/task_queue.py b/postgrestq/task_queue.py
index 69b72ea..da1dd4f 100644
--- a/postgrestq/task_queue.py
+++ b/postgrestq/task_queue.py
@@ -461,6 +461,37 @@ def _reset(self) -> None:
 
             self.conn.commit()
 
+    def prune_completed_tasks(self, before: int) -> None:
+        """Delete all completed tasks older than the given number of hours.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        before : int
+            Hours in the past from which completed task will be deleted
+
+        """
+        # Make sure the pruning time is an actual number
+        before = int(before)
+        logger.info(f"Pruning all tasks completed more than "
+                    f"{before} hour(s) ago.")
+
+        with self.conn.cursor() as cursor:
+            cursor.execute(
+                sql.SQL(
+                    """
+                    DELETE FROM {} 
+                    WHERE queue_name = %s 
+                        AND completed_at IS NOT NULL 
+                        AND processing = false
+                        AND completed_at < NOW() - CAST(
+                            %s || ' hours' AS INTERVAL);
+                    """
+                ).format(sql.Identifier(self._table_name)),
+                (self._queue_name, before),
+            )
+
+            self.conn.commit()
+
     def __iter__(
         self,
     ) -> Iterator[Tuple[Optional[Dict[str, Any]], Optional[UUID]]]: