Deletes the instance configuration. Deletion is only allowed when no instances are using the configuration. If any instances are using the configuration, returns FAILED_PRECONDITION.
Only user-managed configurations can be deleted.
Authorization requires spanner.instanceConfigs.delete permission on the resource name.
Required. The name of the instance configuration to be deleted. Values are of the form projects/<project>/instanceConfigs/<instanceConfig>
Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource name:
spanner.instanceConfigs.delete
Query parameters
Parameters
etag
string
Used for optimistic concurrency control as a way to help prevent simultaneous deletes of an instance configuration from overwriting each other. If not empty, the API only deletes the instance configuration when the etag provided matches the current status of the requested instance configuration. Otherwise, deletes the instance configuration without checking the current status of the requested instance configuration.
validateOnly
boolean
An option to validate, but not actually execute, a request, and provide the same response.
Request body
The request body must be empty.
Response body
If successful, the response body is an empty JSON object.
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