Handling Timeouts During Collection Deletion
TLDR Narayan wondered why deleting collections with many documents often times out. Kishore Nallan suggested increasing the client's connection parameters and reassured that a timed-out operation still successfully deletes the collection server-side.
Kishore Nallan
Wed, 27 Sep 2023 07:03:25 UTCYeah increase the connection timeout parameter used when creating the client. Maybe use a different client for long running ops like deletion. But for deletion even if call times out, the operation will succeed in the server.
Narayan
Wed, 27 Sep 2023 07:05:30 UTCUnderstood, thanks. Yes, that has been my experience - even if the operation times out on the client if I query the collection I get a 404 so I assume that the collection was deleted successfully. I’ll just increase the timeout for these operations.
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Narayan
Wed, 27 Sep 2023 07:02:18 UTCSometimes deleting a collection times out, especially when it has a lot of documents. Is that delete a synchronous call that waits till all the objects are cleared? if yes, does it need to be? Anything else I can do instead of increasing the timeouts on the client?