DROP VIRTUAL CLUSTER

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The DROP VIRTUAL CLUSTER statement removes virtual clusters. Virtual clusters are used only as part of the physical cluster replication (PCR) workflow.

PCR happens between an active primary cluster and a passive standby cluster that accepts updates from the primary cluster. The unit of replication is a virtual cluster, which is part of the underlying infrastructure in the primary and standby clusters. The CockroachDB cluster has:

• The system virtual cluster manages the cluster's control plane and the replication of the cluster's data. Admins connect to the system virtual cluster to configure and manage the underlying CockroachDB cluster, set up PCR, create and manage a virtual cluster, and observe metrics and logs for the CockroachDB cluster and each virtual cluster.
• Each other virtual cluster manages its own data plane. Users connect to a virtual cluster by default, rather than the system virtual cluster. To connect to the system virtual cluster, the connection string must be modified. Virtual clusters contain user data and run application workloads. When PCR is enabled, the non-system virtual cluster on both primary and secondary clusters is named main.

For more detail, refer to the Physical Cluster Replication Overview.

Required privileges

DROP VIRTUAL CLUSTER requires one of the following privileges:

• The admin role.
• The MANAGEVIRTUALCLUSTER system privilege allows the user to run all the related VIRTUAL CLUSTER SQL statements for PCR.

Use the GRANT SYSTEM statement:

GRANT SYSTEM MANAGEVIRTUALCLUSTER TO user;

Synopsis

Parameters

Examples

Remove a virtual cluster

To remove a virtual cluster from a CockroachDB cluster:

DROP VIRTUAL CLUSTER IF EXISTS main;

Remove a virtual cluster without waiting for garbage collection

Use IMMEDIATE to drop a virtual cluster instead of waiting for data to be garbage collected:

DROP VIRTUAL CLUSTER IF EXISTS main IMMEDIATE;

See also

• CREATE VIRTUAL CLUSTER
• ALTER VIRTUAL CLUSTER
• SHOW VIRTUAL CLUSTER

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