Just as the INSERT statements are not a useful operation on counter columns, neither are DELETE statements. It is possible to delete a row containing counter columns:
DELETE FROM "daily_status_update_views" WHERE "year" = 2014 AND "date" = '2014-02-01 00:00:00+0000';
Upon reading the table, you will notice that the deleted row is missing, just as expected:
Let's try re-adding some data to the row for February 1:
UPDATE "daily_status_update_views" SET "total_views" = "total_views" + 100 WHERE "year" = 2014 AND "date" = '2014-02-01 00:00:00+0000';
On reading the data in the table, we'll see something surprising: ...