DROP – Drop elements from memory
Use the DROP
command to drop saved
structures from memory.
DROP <type>(<item>) [,<type>(<item>)...]
<type>
- The type of element being dropped from memory, this can be
SAVELIST
orOBJECT
. <item>
- The name of the element being dropped.
The DROP
command drops saved structures
from memory. For large elements this might be required to reduce storage
consumption, especially if multiple SAVELIST
elements
are merged using the MERGE
command, or many
large OBJECT
elements are extracted from the
database.
You can drop more than one element at once by repeating the keyword.
For example, DROP OBJECT(AD1) OBJECT(AD2)
.
Where a LIST
request has generated multiple
objects, dropping the LIST
object also drops
all of the generated objects.
SAVELIST
name
is provided without a keyword, it is assumed to be a SAVELIST
and
dropped. For example, DROP MYLIST
is considered
equivalent to DROP SAVELIST(MYLIST)
. DROP
SAVELIST
is considered equivalent to DROP
SAVELIST(SAVELIST)
.