Troubleshooting Typesense Index Deletion Issue
TLDR John reported issues deleting old indices after upgrading Typesense. Kishore Nallan suggested checking for special characters and race conditions. Issue was resolved by catching the 404 error.
May 08, 2023 (4 months ago)
John
09:40 AM• When querying for all collections, collection "foobar123" is there.
• When trying to delete it, I get
No collection with name "foobar123" found.
Any ideas on how to resolve this?
Kishore Nallan
09:43 AM2. What happens when you restart the Typesense process?
Kishore Nallan
09:46 AMJohn
09:49 AMNo collection with name "foobar123" found
error, "foobar123" is actually no longer returned from the collections endpoint so it is deleted from something.Kishore Nallan
09:49 AMJohn
09:49 AMKishore Nallan
09:50 AMTypesense
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