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Alex Delgado
Alex Delgado

Reputation: 984

MongoDB: Collection named "createCollection" how to drop it?

By mistake I named it "createCollection" and now when I try to drop this collection it says

[thread1] TypeError: db.createCollection.drop is not a function : @(shell):1:1

How can I solve this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 43

Answers (1)

Philipp
Philipp

Reputation: 15629

If you name a collection like a keyword, you cant directly use it like db.collectionName. Instead, you have to first retrive the collection with getCollection and call the method on the returned object.

db.getCollection('createCollection').drop()

That's also the way to go, if you want to query a GridFS table directly.

db.getCollection('collectionName.chunks').find()

Upvotes: 1

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