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API Reference

API Reference Indexes

Delete payload index

DELETE

/collections/:collection_name/index/:field_name

DELETE

/collections/:collection_name/index/:field_name

$ curl  -X DELETE \
>   'http://localhost:6333/collections/collection_name/index/field_name' \
>   --header 'api-key: <api-key-value>'

200Deleted

1 {
2   "usage": {
3     "cpu": 1,
4     "payload_io_read": 1,
5     "payload_io_write": 1,
6     "payload_index_io_read": 1,
7     "payload_index_io_write": 1,
8     "vector_io_read": 1,
9     "vector_io_write": 1
10   },
11   "time": 0.002,
12   "status": "ok",
13   "result": {
14     "status": "acknowledged",
15     "operation_id": 1
16   }
17 }

Deletes a payload index for a field in the specified collection.

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Authentication

api-keystring

API Key authentication via header

Path parameters

collection_namestringRequired

Name of the collection

field_namestringRequired

Name of the field where to delete the index

Query parameters

waitbooleanOptional

If true, wait for changes to actually happen

orderingenumOptional

define ordering guarantees for the operation

Allowed values:

Response

successful operation

usageobject or any

timedouble

Time spent to process this request

statusstring

resultobject