Object Storage Service:DeleteVectorIndex

Important notes

• Deleting an index also deletes all vector data within that index.

• This operation is irreversible. Back up important data before proceeding.

Permissions

An Alibaba Cloud account has full permissions by default. RAM users and RAM roles under an Alibaba Cloud account have no permissions by default. An Alibaba Cloud account or account administrator must grant permissions using a RAM policy or a bucket policy.

Request syntax

POST /?deleteVectorIndex HTTP/1.1
Host: examplebucket-123***456.cn-hangzhou.oss-vectors.aliyuncs.com
Date: GMT Date
Authorization: SignatureValue
Content-type: application/json

{
   "indexName": "string"
}

Request headers

This operation uses only common request headers. For more information, see Common HTTP headers.

Request parameters

Response headers

This operation uses only common response headers. For more information, see Common HTTP headers.

Examples

Sample request

POST /?deleteVectorIndex HTTP/1.1
Host: examplebucket-123***456.cn-hangzhou.oss-vectors.aliyuncs.com
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 01:33:47 GMT
Authorization: OSS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=LTAI********************/20250417/cn-hangzhou/oss/aliyun_v4_request,Signature=a7c3554c729d71929e0b84489addee6b2e8d5cb48595adfc51868c299c0c218
Content-type: application/json
    
{
   "indexName": "vectorindex1"
}

Sample response

HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
x-oss-request-id: 534B371674E88A4D8906****
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 01:33:47 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Server: AliyunOSS

SDK

The following SDKs support DeleteVectorIndex:

• Delete a vector index (Python SDK v2)

• Delete a vector index (Go SDK v2)

Command-line tool ossutil

For the ossutil command that corresponds to DeleteVectorIndex, see delete-vector-index.

Error codes