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# Delete payload index

DELETE http://localhost:6333/collections/{collection_name}/index/{field_name}

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

Reference: https://api.qdrant.tech/api-reference/indexes/delete-field-index

## Authentication

- `api-key` header (required) — API Key authentication via header

## Servers

- `http://localhost:6333` (http, default)
- `https://localhost:6333` (https)

## Request

### Path parameters

- `collection_name` (string, required) — Name of the collection
- `field_name` (string, required) — Name of the field where to delete the index

### Query parameters

- `wait` (boolean, optional) — If true, wait for changes to actually happen
- `ordering` (enum, optional) — define ordering guarantees for the operation
  - Allowed values: `weak`, `medium`, `strong`

## Response

### 200

successful operation

- `usage` (CollectionsCollectionNameIndexFieldNameDeleteResponsesContentApplicationJsonSchemaUsage, optional)
- `time` (double, optional) — Time spent to process this request
- `status` (string, optional)
- `result` (UpdateResult, optional)

## Types

### CollectionsCollectionNameIndexFieldNameDeleteResponsesContentApplicationJsonSchemaUsage

### UpdateResult

- `status` (enum, required) — `Acknowledged` - Request is saved to WAL and will be process in a queue. `Completed` - Request is completed, changes are actual.
  - Allowed values: `acknowledged`, `completed`
- `operation_id` (uint64, optional, nullable) — Sequential number of the operation

### HardwareUsage

Usage of the hardware resources, spent to process the request

- `cpu` (integer, required)
- `payload_io_read` (integer, required)
- `payload_io_write` (integer, required)
- `payload_index_io_read` (integer, required)
- `payload_index_io_write` (integer, required)
- `vector_io_read` (integer, required)
- `vector_io_write` (integer, required)

## Examples

**Response**

```json
{
  "usage": {
    "cpu": 1,
    "payload_io_read": 1,
    "payload_io_write": 1,
    "payload_index_io_read": 1,
    "payload_index_io_write": 1,
    "vector_io_read": 1,
    "vector_io_write": 1
  },
  "time": 0.002,
  "status": "ok",
  "result": {
    "status": "acknowledged",
    "operation_id": 1
  }
}
```

**SDK Code**

```rust
use qdrant_client::qdrant::DeleteFieldIndexCollectionBuilder;
use qdrant_client::Qdrant;

let client = Qdrant::from_url("http://localhost:6334").build()?;

client
    .delete_field_index(DeleteFieldIndexCollectionBuilder::new(
        "{collection_name}",
        "{field_name}",
    ))
    .await?;

```

```python
from qdrant_client import QdrantClient

client = QdrantClient(url="http://localhost:6333")

client.delete_payload_index("{collection_name}", "{field_name}");

```

```typescript
import { QdrantClient } from "@qdrant/js-client-rest";

const client = new QdrantClient({ host: "localhost", port: 6333 });

client.deletePayloadIndex("{collection_name}", "{field_name}");

```

```go
package client

import (
	"context"

	"github.com/qdrant/go-client/qdrant"
)

func deleteFieldIndex() {
	client, err := qdrant.NewClient(&qdrant.Config{
		Host: "localhost",
		Port: 6334,
	})
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	_, err = client.DeleteFieldIndex(context.Background(), &qdrant.DeleteFieldIndexCollection{
		CollectionName: "{collection_name}",
		FieldName:      "{field_name}",
	})
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
}

```

```java
import io.qdrant.client.QdrantClient;
import io.qdrant.client.QdrantGrpcClient;

QdrantClient client = new QdrantClient(
                QdrantGrpcClient.newBuilder("localhost", 6334, false).build());

client.deletePayloadIndexAsync("{collection_name}", "{field_name}", true, null, null).get();

```

```csharp
using Qdrant.Client;

var client = new QdrantClient("localhost", 6334);

await client.DeletePayloadIndexAsync(
  collectionName: "{collection_name}",
  fieldName: "name_of_the_field_to_index"
);

```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("http://localhost:6333/collections/collection_name/index/field_name")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)

request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(url)
request["api-key"] = '<apiKey>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('DELETE', 'http://localhost:6333/collections/collection_name/index/field_name', [
  'headers' => [
    'api-key' => '<apiKey>',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = ["api-key": "<apiKey>"]

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "http://localhost:6333/collections/collection_name/index/field_name")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "DELETE"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```