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Drops (aka deletes) a Cloud Spanner database. Completed backups for the
database will be retained according to their expire_time. Note: Cloud
Spanner might continue to accept requests for a few seconds after the
database has been deleted.
For more information about retries and long-running operations, see
Understand connectors.
Arguments
Parameters
database
string
Required. The database to be dropped.
Raised exceptions
Exceptions
ConnectionError
In case of a network problem (such as DNS failure or refused connection).
HttpError
If the response status is >= 400 (excluding 429 and 503).
TimeoutError
If a long-running operation takes longer to finish than the specified timeout limit.
TypeError
If an operation or function receives an argument of the wrong type.
ValueError
If an operation or function receives an argument of the right type but an inappropriate value. For example, a negative timeout.
Response
If successful, the response will be empty.
Subworkflow snippet
Some fields might be optional or required.
To identify required fields, refer to the API documentation.
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