Vacuum Command¶

Vacuum command allows for garbage collection of a delta table.

Vacuum command can be executed as VACUUM SQL command or DeltaTable.vacuum operator.

Demo¶

VACUUM SQL Command¶

val q = sql("VACUUM delta.`/tmp/delta/t1`")

scala> q.show
Deleted 0 files and directories in a total of 2 directories.
+------------------+
|              path|
+------------------+
|file:/tmp/delta/t1|
+------------------+

DeltaTable.vacuum¶

import io.delta.tables.DeltaTable
DeltaTable.forPath("/tmp/delta/t1").vacuum

Dry Run¶

Visit Demo: Vacuum.

Last update: 2021-04-24