Truncate a partition

You can clear the data in a partition of a partitioned table but retain the partition structure.

Support for truncating a partition from a partitioned table

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

Truncate a partition

You can truncate a partition from a table.

The SQL syntax for truncating a partition is as follows:

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

Here are some examples:

• Clear the data in the M202001 and M202002 partitions of 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 TRUNCATE PARTITION M202001,M202002;
  Query OK, 0 rows affected
  

• Clear the data in the p0 partition of the RANGE COLUMNS-LIST COLUMNS-subpartitioned table t_f_rclc.

Truncate a subpartition

The SQL syntax for truncating a subpartition is as follows:

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

Here is an example of creating a RANGE-RANGE-subpartitioned table named t_f_rr and clearing the data in the sp1 and sp2 subpartitions:

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 TRUNCATE SUBPARTITION sp1,sp2;
Query OK, 0 rows affected