Drop a partition

You can drop partitions from a partitioned table as needed.

Support for dropping partitions from partitioned tables

The following table describes the support for dropping partitions from partitioned and subpartitioned tables in the MySQL mode of OceanBase Database.

Drop a partition

You can drop a partition from a RANGE-, RANGE COLUMNS-, LIST, or LIST COLUMNS-partitioned table. You cannot drop partitions from HASH- and KEY-partitioned tables.

The SQL syntax for dropping a partition is as follows:

ALTER TABLE table_name DROP PARTITION partition_name[, partition_name ...];

Here are some examples:

• Drop partitions M202011 and M202012 from the tbl1_r partitioned table.

  obclient> CREATE TABLE tbl1_r (log_id BIGINT NOT NULL,log_value VARCHAR(50),log_date TIMESTAMP NOT NULL)
         PARTITION BY RANGE(UNIX_TIMESTAMP(log_date))
          (PARTITION M202001 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2020/02/01'))
         , PARTITION M202002 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2020/03/01'))
         , PARTITION M202003 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2020/04/01'))
         , PARTITION M202004 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2020/05/01'))
         , PARTITION M202005 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2020/06/01'))
         , PARTITION M202006 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2020/07/01'))
         , PARTITION M202007 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2020/08/01'))
         , PARTITION M202008 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2020/09/01'))
         , PARTITION M202009 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2020/10/01'))
         , PARTITION M202010 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2020/11/01'))
         , PARTITION M202011 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2020/12/01'))
         , PARTITION M202012 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2021/01/01'))
          );
  Query OK, 0 rows affected
  
  obclient> ALTER TABLE tbl1_r DROP PARTITION M202011,M202012;
  Query OK, 0 rows affected
  

• Create a template-based RANGE COLUMNS-RANGE COLUMNS-subpartitioned table named t_m_rcrc and drop partitions p1 and p2 from it.

  obclient> CREATE TABLE t_m_rcrc(col1 INT,col2 INT)
         PARTITION BY RANGE COLUMNS(col1)
         SUBPARTITION BY RANGE COLUMNS(col2)
         SUBPARTITION TEMPLATE
          (SUBPARTITION mp0 VALUES LESS THAN(1000),
           SUBPARTITION mp1 VALUES LESS THAN(2000),
           SUBPARTITION mp2 VALUES LESS THAN(3000)
          )
          (PARTITION p0 VALUES LESS THAN(100),
           PARTITION p1 VALUES LESS THAN(200),
           PARTITION p2 VALUES LESS THAN(300)
          );
  Query OK, 0 rows affected
  
  obclient> ALTER TABLE t_m_rcrc DROP PARTITION p1,p2;
  Query OK, 0 rows affected
  

• Create a RANGE-RANGE-subpartitioned table named t_f_rr and drop the p1 partition from it.

  obclient> CREATE TABLE t_f_rr(col1 INT,col2 TIMESTAMP)
         PARTITION BY RANGE(col1)
         SUBPARTITION BY RANGE(UNIX_TIMESTAMP(col2))
          (PARTITION p0 VALUES LESS THAN(100)
             (SUBPARTITION sp0 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2021/04/01')),
              SUBPARTITION sp1 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2021/07/01')),
              SUBPARTITION sp2 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2021/10/01')),
              SUBPARTITION sp3 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2022/01/01'))
             ),
           PARTITION p1 VALUES LESS THAN(200)
             (SUBPARTITION sp4 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2021/04/01')),
              SUBPARTITION sp5 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2021/07/01')),
              SUBPARTITION sp6 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2021/10/01')),
              SUBPARTITION sp7 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2022/01/01'))
              )
           );
  Query OK, 0 rows affected
  
  obclient> ALTER TABLE t_f_rr DROP PARTITION p1;
  Query OK, 0 rows affected
  

Drop a subpartition

The SQL syntax for dropping a subpartition is as follows:

ALTER TABLE table_name DROP SUBPARTITION subpartition_name[, subpartition_name ...];

Create a non-template-based RANGE-RANGE-partitioned table named t_f_rr and drop the sp6 and sp7 subpartitions from it.

obclient> CREATE TABLE t_f_rr(col1 INT,col2 TIMESTAMP)
       PARTITION BY RANGE(col1)
       SUBPARTITION BY RANGE(UNIX_TIMESTAMP(col2))
        (PARTITION p0 VALUES LESS THAN(100)
           (SUBPARTITION sp0 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2021/04/01')),
            SUBPARTITION sp1 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2021/07/01')),
            SUBPARTITION sp2 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2021/10/01')),
            SUBPARTITION sp3 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2022/01/01'))
           ),
         PARTITION p1 VALUES LESS THAN(200)
           (SUBPARTITION sp4 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2021/04/01')),
            SUBPARTITION sp5 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2021/07/01')),
            SUBPARTITION sp6 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2021/10/01')),
            SUBPARTITION sp7 VALUES LESS THAN(UNIX_TIMESTAMP('2022/01/01'))
            )
         );
Query OK, 0 rows affected

obclient> ALTER TABLE t_f_rr DROP SUBPARTITION sp6,sp7;
Query OK, 0 rows affected