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Delete documents or container

Source: R/delete.R
docdb_delete.Rd

Delete documents or container

Usage

docdb_delete(src, key, ...)

Arguments

src

Source object, result of call to any of functions src_mongo(), src_sqlite(), src_elastic(), src_couchdb() src_duckdb() or src_postgres()

key

(character) The name of the container in the database backend (corresponds to collection for MongoDB, dbname for CouchDB, index for Elasticsearch, and to a table name for DuckDB, SQLite and PostgreSQL)

...

Optionally, specify query parameter with a JSON string as per docdb_query() to identify documents to be deleted. If not specified (default), deletes the container key.

Value

(logical) Success of operation. Typically TRUE if document(s) or collection existed, and FALSE if document(s) did not exist, or collection did not exist, or delete was not successful.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
src <- src_sqlite()
docdb_create(src, "iris", iris)
docdb_delete(src, "iris", query = '{"Species": {"$regex": "a$"}}')
docdb_delete(src, "iris")
} # }