URL: https://<aws.fqdn>/<aws.cluster.name>/gpudb-0/clear/table
Clears (drops) one or all tables in the database cluster. The operation is synchronous meaning that the table will be cleared before the function returns. The response payload returns the status of the operation along with the name of the table that was cleared.
Input Parameter Description
| Name | Type | Description | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| table_name | string | Name of the table to be cleared, in [schema_name.]table_name format, using standard name resolution rules. Must be an existing table. Empty string clears all available tables, though this behavior is be prevented by default via gpudb.conf parameter 'disable_clear_all'. The default value is ''. | ||||
| authorization | string | No longer used. User can pass an empty string. The default value is ''. | ||||
| options | map of string to strings | Optional parameters. The default value is an empty map ( {} ).
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Output Parameter Description
The GPUdb server embeds the endpoint response inside a standard response structure which contains status information and the actual response to the query. Here is a description of the various fields of the wrapper:
| Name | Type | Description | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| status | String | 'OK' or 'ERROR' | |||||||||
| message | String | Empty if success or an error message | |||||||||
| data_type | String | 'clear_table_response' or 'none' in case of an error | |||||||||
| data | String | Empty string | |||||||||
| data_str | JSON or String | This embedded JSON represents the result of the /clear/table endpoint:
Empty string in case of an error. |
