Drop all partitions from redshift for an external table











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I am trying to drop all the partitions on an external table in a redshift cluster. I am unable to find an easy way to do it. I am currently doing this by running a dynamic query to select the dates from the table and concatenating it with the drop logic and taking the result set and running it separately like this




select 'ALTER TABLE procore_iad_ext.active_histories DROP PARTITION (values='''||rtrim(ltrim(values, '["'),'"]') ||''');' from svv_external_partitions
where tablename = 'xyz';



values looks like this ->["2009-03-10"]



Looking for a simpler direct solution. Thanks.










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    Why not use drop table and recreate it, that will be much faster than dropping partitions.
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I am trying to drop all the partitions on an external table in a redshift cluster. I am unable to find an easy way to do it. I am currently doing this by running a dynamic query to select the dates from the table and concatenating it with the drop logic and taking the result set and running it separately like this




select 'ALTER TABLE procore_iad_ext.active_histories DROP PARTITION (values='''||rtrim(ltrim(values, '["'),'"]') ||''');' from svv_external_partitions
where tablename = 'xyz';



values looks like this ->["2009-03-10"]



Looking for a simpler direct solution. Thanks.










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    Why not use drop table and recreate it, that will be much faster than dropping partitions.
    – Kannaiyan
    Nov 9 at 22:17















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I am trying to drop all the partitions on an external table in a redshift cluster. I am unable to find an easy way to do it. I am currently doing this by running a dynamic query to select the dates from the table and concatenating it with the drop logic and taking the result set and running it separately like this




select 'ALTER TABLE procore_iad_ext.active_histories DROP PARTITION (values='''||rtrim(ltrim(values, '["'),'"]') ||''');' from svv_external_partitions
where tablename = 'xyz';



values looks like this ->["2009-03-10"]



Looking for a simpler direct solution. Thanks.










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I am trying to drop all the partitions on an external table in a redshift cluster. I am unable to find an easy way to do it. I am currently doing this by running a dynamic query to select the dates from the table and concatenating it with the drop logic and taking the result set and running it separately like this




select 'ALTER TABLE procore_iad_ext.active_histories DROP PARTITION (values='''||rtrim(ltrim(values, '["'),'"]') ||''');' from svv_external_partitions
where tablename = 'xyz';



values looks like this ->["2009-03-10"]



Looking for a simpler direct solution. Thanks.







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    Why not use drop table and recreate it, that will be much faster than dropping partitions.
    – Kannaiyan
    Nov 9 at 22:17
















  • 2




    Why not use drop table and recreate it, that will be much faster than dropping partitions.
    – Kannaiyan
    Nov 9 at 22:17










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Why not use drop table and recreate it, that will be much faster than dropping partitions.
– Kannaiyan
Nov 9 at 22:17






Why not use drop table and recreate it, that will be much faster than dropping partitions.
– Kannaiyan
Nov 9 at 22:17



















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