vtctldclient DeleteShards #

Deletes the specified shards from the topology.

Synopsis #

Deletes the specified shards from the topology.

In recursive mode, it also deletes all tablets belonging to the shard. Otherwise, the shard must be empty (have no tablets) or returns an error for that shard.

vtctldclient DeleteShards [--recursive|-r] [--even-if-serving] [--force|-f] <keyspace/shard> [<keyspace/shard> ...]

Options #

      --even-if-serving   Remove the shard even if it is serving. Use with caution.
  -f, --force             Remove the shard even if it cannot be locked; this should only be used for cleanup operations.
  -h, --help              help for DeleteShards
  -r, --recursive         Also delete all tablets belonging to the shard. This is required to delete a non-empty shard.

Options inherited from parent commands #

      --action_timeout duration              timeout to use for the command (default 1h0m0s)
      --compact                              use compact format for otherwise verbose outputs
      --server string                        server to use for the connection (required)
      --topo-global-root string              the path of the global topology data in the global topology server (default "/vitess/global")
      --topo-global-server-address strings   the address of the global topology server(s) (default [localhost:2379])
      --topo-implementation string           the topology implementation to use (default "etcd2")

SEE ALSO #

• vtctldclient - Executes a cluster management command on the remote vtctld server.