Deleting All Documents in Typesense Collection
TLDR Vikas wanted to delete all documents in a typesense collection. Kishore Nallan suggested using a range filter on a numerical field to match and delete the entire dataset.
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Vikas
Vikas
08:49 AMHello, started using typesense for an internal service and have been loving it. API's are great and easy to use.
I have hit one hurdle where I want to delete all documents for a collection. I know we can delete the collection itself but was checking if there is a way to delete all documents.
I have seen delete by filter_by api as well, but I cannot run something like name "not equal"(name: !="blah") to match all documents and delete them. Any pointers?
I have hit one hurdle where I want to delete all documents for a collection. I know we can delete the collection itself but was checking if there is a way to delete all documents.
I have seen delete by filter_by api as well, but I cannot run something like name "not equal"(name: !="blah") to match all documents and delete them. Any pointers?
Kishore Nallan
Kishore Nallan
09:54 AM Vikas We don't have a truncate collection end-point. However, you can achieve that with delete by filter API by doing a range filter on a numerical field with a value that matches the whole dataset. E.g.
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Vikas
11:00 AMthanks Kishore Nallan I had that as a backup plan.
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