Hi All, I saw this thread related to deleting table/segments (https://apache-pinot.slack.com/archives/C011C9JHN7R/p1623800839135400) and wanted to confirm that to delete table in dev environment I can use API to delete table and can manually delete the segments in my deep store (S3) and that would be it?

Are you seeing an issue due to large number of segments?

Hi Mayank, I have not tried using the API to delete segments yet. I had used the api to drop the table but when I recreated the data was still there ( since I had not deleted the segments). Just wanted to understand best practice for dropping and repopulating tables since I'm still in dev.

The conversation you mentioned was specific to the problem of deleting taking a long time in S3 due to 20k segments. If you don't have that issue, you don't need that work around. Ideally, you should not do those even in dev env.

Got it. I'll use the API to delete the segments.