Partition

A Partition instance represents a partition within a collection.

class pymilvus.Partition

Constructor

Constructs a partition in a collection by name, description, and other parameters.

Partition(
    collection=collection, 
    name="string",
    description="string",
)

PARAMETERS:

• collection (Collection | str) -

  [REQUIRED]

  The collection in which to create a partition.

  You can either reference a Collection object or its name.

  what is a collection?

  A collection collects data in a two-dimensional table with a fixed number of columns and a variable number of rows. In the table, each column corresponds to a field, and each row represents an entity.

  A collection can support up to 64 partitions.

• name (string) -

  [REQUIRED]

  The name of the partition to create.

• description (string) -

  The description of the partition to create.

RETURN TYPE:

Partition

RETURNS:

A Partition object.

EXCEPTIONS:

• MilvusException

  This exception will be raised when any error occurs during this operation.

Examples

from pymilvus import Collection, Partition

# Get an existing collection
collection = Collection("book")

# Create a partition object in the current collection
partition = Partition(collection, "novel", "")