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Drops an existing data sink. By default, if any table monitors use this sink as a destination, the request will be blocked unless option clear_table_monitors is true.

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Input Parameter Description

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string
Name of the data sink to be dropped. Must be an existing data sink.
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map of string to strings
Optional parameters.The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

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Output Parameter Description

The Kinetica 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:
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String
‘OK’ or ‘ERROR’
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String
Empty if success or an error message
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String
‘drop_datasink_response’ or ‘none’ in case of an error
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String
Empty string
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JSON or String
This embedded JSON represents the result of the /drop/datasink endpoint:Empty string in case of an error.