# groonga - An open-source fulltext search engine and column store.

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# 7.3.15. `config_delete`

## 7.3.15.1. Summary

New in version 5.1.2.

`config_delete` command deletes the specified configuration item.

## 7.3.15.2. Syntax

This command takes only one required parameter:

    config_delete key

## 7.3.15.3. Usage

Here is an example to delete `alias.column` configuration item:

Execution example:

    config_set alias.column Aliases.real_name
    # [[0, 1337566253.89858, 0.000355720520019531], true]
    config_get alias.column
    # [[0, 1337566253.89858, 0.000355720520019531], "Aliases.real_name"]
    config_delete alias.column
    # [[0, 1337566253.89858, 0.000355720520019531], true]
    config_get alias.column
    # [[0, 1337566253.89858, 0.000355720520019531], ""]

Here is an example to delete nonexistent configuration item:

Execution example:

    config_delete nonexistent
    # [
    #   [
    #     -22,
    #     1337566253.89858,
    #     0.000355720520019531,
    #     "[config][delete] failed to delete",
    #     [
    #       [
    #         "grn_config_delete",
    #         "config.c",
    #         166
    #       ]
    #     ]
    #   ],
    #   false
    # ]

`config_delete` returns an error when you try to delete nonexistent configuration item.

## 7.3.15.4. Parameters

This section describes all parameters.

### 7.3.15.4.1. Required parameters

There is one required parameter.

#### 7.3.15.4.1.1. `key`

Specifies the key of target configuration item.

The max key size is 4KiB.

You can't use an empty string as key.

### 7.3.15.4.2. Optional parameters

There is no optional parameter.

## 7.3.15.5. Return value

`config_delete` command returns whether deleting a configuration item is succeeded or not:

    [HEADER, SUCCEEDED_OR_NOT]

### 7.3.15.5.1. `HEADER`

See Output format about `HEADER`.

### 7.3.15.5.2. `SUCCEEDED_OR_NOT`

If command succeeded, it returns true, otherwise it returns false on error.

## 7.3.15.6. See also

> - Configuration
> - config_get
> - config_set