CLEAR ORPHAN DATABASES
Removes orphaned partitions. Orphaned partitions are partition databases and tables on leaf nodes that are no longer considered part of the cluster.
Syntax
CLEAR ORPHAN DATABASES;
Remarks
Caution
This command cannot be undone.
The master aggregator will not drop orphan partition databases if there is no corresponding master partition.
This command causes implicit commits. See COMMIT for more information.
To detect orphan partitions, run
SHOW CLUSTER STATUS
and check for partitions with the role ofOrphan
.Before running
CLEAR ORPHAN DATABASES
, run:EXPLAIN CLEAR ORPHAN DATABASES;
to see which partitions will be dropped.Orphan tables are tables that don't exist in metadata but do exist on some partition databases. For example, if a table is dropped on the master in asynchronous replication and its node fails before it can succeed then the table could become an orphan table.
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