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db.collection.reIndex()

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db.collection.reIndex()

Important

mongosh Method

This page documents a mongosh method. This is not the documentation for database commands or language-specific drivers, such as Node.js.

For the database command, see the reIndex command.

For MongoDB API drivers, refer to the language-specific MongoDB driver documentation.

The db.collection.reIndex() drops all indexes on a collection and recreates them. This operation may be expensive for collections that have a large amount of data and/or a large number of indexes.

Warning

This method is available in deployments hosted in the following environments:

Important

This command is not supported in MongoDB Atlas clusters. For information on Atlas support for all commands, see Unsupported Commands.

For MongoDB 5.0 or later, db.collection.reIndex() may only be run on standalone instances.

db.collection.reIndex() obtains an exclusive (W) lock on the collection and blocks other operations on the collection until it completes.

For more information on locking in MongoDB, see FAQ: Concurrency.

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