Hey, Buckets act as a namespace only if you do not specify any properties for them. They come into existence on demand, so there is currently no meaningful way to delete them. I *heard* Basho was considering using DELETE to a bucket to empty its contents.
- Adam On May 21, 2010, at 6:24 PM, Rajiv M Ranganath wrote: > Hi there, > > Is it default behavior in Riak (thru' the HTTP interface) that everytime a > GET request is issued, a bucket automatically gets created if one does not > exist? > > Thru' the web interface, I basically did, > > curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8091/riak/abcd1 > curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8091/riak/abcd2 > curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8091/riak/abcd3 > curl -v http://127.0.0.1:8091/riak/abcd4 > > and then, via the erlang APIs, the output of Client:list_buckets() showed, > > (d...@127.0.0.1)78> Client:list_buckets(). > {ok,[<<"test1">>,<<"groceries">>,<<"abcd">>,<<"abcd4">>, > <<"abcd3">>,<<"abcd2">>,<<"abcd1">>]} > > A related question - Once the buckets are created, is there anyway to delete > them? > > Best, > Rajiv > > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
