Object Storage Service:DeleteVectorIndex

Usage notes

• Deleting an index also deletes all vector data in the index.

• The delete operation is irreversible. Back up important data and proceed with caution.

Permissions

Alibaba Cloud accounts have full permissions by default. Resource Access Management (RAM) users and roles have none. An account administrator must grant permissions through a RAM policy or bucket policy.

Request syntax

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

{
   "indexName": "string"
}

Request headers

This operation uses only Common request headers.

Request parameters

Response headers

This operation returns only Common response headers.

Examples

Sample request

POST /?deleteVectorIndex HTTP/1.1
Host: examplebucket-123***456.cn-hangzhou-internal.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

SDKs

Supported SDKs:

• Delete a vector index (Python SDK V2)

• Delete a vector index (Go SDK V2)

ossutil command-line interface

The corresponding ossutil command is delete-vector-index.

Error codes