4.3.78 ctdbDropTable

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Drop the table from the database.

Declaration

CTDBRET ctdbDropTable(CTHANDLE Handle, pTEXT TableName)

Description

ctdbDropTable drops the table from the database, but does not delete the table from disk. When a table is dropped, the allocated records, fields, index and segments are freed.

Handle [in] the database handle.
TableName [in] the name of the table to be deleted.

Use ctdbAddTable to add a table to a database. Use ctdbDeleteTable to drop the table from the database and delete the table files from disk.

Returns

ctdbDropTable returns CTDBRET_OK on success, or the c-tree Plus error code on failure.

Example

eRet=ctdbConnect(hDatabase, database_name);

eRet = ctdbDropTable(hDatabase, table_name);

See also

ctdbDeleteTable, ctdbAddTable, ctdbAllocDatabase