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Drop Partitions

This topic describes how to drop a partition in a specified collection.

Dropping a partition irreversibly deletes all data within it.
from pymilvus import Collection
collection.drop_partition("novel")
await milvusClient.partitionManager.dropPartition({
  collection_name: "book",
  partition_name: "novel",
});
err := milvusClient.DropPartition(
  context.Background(),   // ctx
  "book",                 // CollectionName
  "novel",                // partitionName
)
if err != nil {
  log.Fatal("fail to drop partition:", err.Error())
}
milvusClient.dropPartition(
  DropPartitionParam.newBuilder()
    .withCollectionName("book")
    .withPartitionName("novel")
    .build()
);
delete partition -c book -p novel
Parameter Description
partition_name Name of the partition to drop.
Parameter Description
collection_name Name of the collection to drop partition from.
partition_name Name of the partition to drop.
Parameter Description
ctx Context to control API invocation process.
CollectionName Name of the collection to drop a partition in.
partitionName Name of the partition to drop.
Parameter Description
CollectionName Name of the collection to drop a partition in.
PartitionName Name of the partition to drop.
Option Description
-c Name of the collection to drop partition from.
-p Name of the partition to drop.

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