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Drop partition

DELETE 

/metalakes/:metalake/catalogs/:catalog/schemas/:schema/tables/:table/partitions/:partition

Drops a partition and reports whether a partition was dropped. When purge is true, the partition data is also removed completely, skipping the trash.

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Request​

Path Parameters

    metalake stringrequired

    The name of the metalake

    catalog stringrequired

    The name of the catalog

    schema stringrequired

    The name of the schema

    table stringrequired

    The name of the table

    partition stringrequired

    The name of the partition

Query Parameters

    purge boolean

    When true, removes the partition data completely, skipping the trash. Tables that do not support purging partitions, including external tables, reject the request.

Responses​

Whether the object was dropped. dropped is false when the object did not exist or, for statistics, when none of the named statistics existed.

Schema

    code int32

    Possible values: [0]

    Status code of the response

    dropped boolean

    Whether the drop operation was successful

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