Hello everyone, I am new to SST. I had to add a range key to one of the DynamoDB tables in my app. Now, I am getting the following error while deploying:

Export dev-storage:ExportsOutputFn.... cannot be deleted as it is in use by dev-api

I tried renaming the table. But, that did not work either. Please suggest.

when running a stage where you don’t want to persist the table on destroying the stage add this to the

Table

construct’s config :-

dynamodbTable: {
        removalPolicy: RemovalPolicy.DESTROY,
      },

by default some constructs don’t get deleted to prevent data loss.

Table

,

Bucket

and

Auth

constructs and many others have this fail-safe and it can be overridden by the above config change. Add the config change, deploy it and then remove the table, that should solve it.

Thanks for the response. I tried to add the config and deploy. But, I got the following error:

Error: CloudFormation cannot update a stack when a custom-named resource requires replacing. Rename dev-Referrals and update the stack again.

Then I tried to rename the table. But, ended up with the original error:

cannot be deleted as it is in use by dev-api

oh, haven’t seen this one lol.

This might be to do with the CDK name rather than the dynamodb table name

I tried to remove the table and any api that was using it from code. But, I am getting the following error:

...cannot be deleted as it is in use by dev-api

So, I guess my question is - how to delete an unused table?

@Frank have a look at this?

Hi @Shah Hossain, which version of SST are you using?

Frank, Thanks for checking. Yes, I got around the issue by manually updating the template in the AWS console. There were some references to the table in the API even after removing it in code.

Ah nice 👍