Stefan, There is an open feature request for this. You're not the only one who would like it to be more efficient :)
Upvotes, comments, etc., are encouraged. http://features.basho.com/entries/20516763-simplify-bucket-deletion Mark On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:55 AM, Alexander Sicular <[email protected]> wrote: > there is no equivalent to drop table / drop bucket. > you need to list all keys via streaming and issue a delete on each key. even > then , the delete is a write , so mind your disk (at least in bitcask). > If this is a test environment just do a "rm -r riak/data/*" and start over. > cheers, > > -Alexander Sicular > @siculars > http://siculars.posterous.com > On Nov 10, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Stefan Gebhardt wrote: > > Hi > > I just started playing around with riak. > For the purpose of testing i uploaded 1 million random generated items(using > uuid for keys) to a single bucket > via the python API. > Now i like to clean/remove this bucket and run the upload again. At the > moment i am looking for smth. like DROP Bucket. Neither in the erlang api > nor in the python api i found a function for doing so. > Then i tried to list all keys and delete item by item but the call "list 1 > million keys" never returned and ok,,, silly plan at all. > > So... My questions are: > How can i clean up my cluster? > Why is there no function to remove a bucket? > > Cheers > Stefan > > > > > -- > -- > > Stefan Gebhardt * [email protected] > Software Development > ABAS Software AG * ERP / PPS / WWS / eBusiness > Südendstraße 42 * 76135 Karlsruhe * GERMANY > Vorstand: Werner Strub (Vorsitzender), Peter Walser > Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Thomas Frank > HRB 107644 Amtsgericht Mannheim > Tel. +49 (0) 721/9 67 23 0 * Fax +49 (0) 721/9 67 23 100 > http://www.abas.de * [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > > _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
