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planCacheClear

Removes cached query plans for a collection. Specify a query shape to remove cached query plans for that shape. Omit the query shape to clear all cached query plans.

The command has the following syntax:

db.runCommand(
{
planCacheClear: <collection>,
query: <query>,
sort: <sort>,
projection: <projection>,
comment: <any>
}
)

The planCacheClear command has the following field:

Field
Type
Description
query
document
Optional. The query predicate of the query shape. Only the structure of the predicate, including the field names, are significant to the shape; the values in the query predicate are insignificant.
projection
document
Optional. The projection associated with the query shape.
sort
document
Optional. The sort associated with the query shape.
comment
any

Optional. A user-provided comment to attach to this command. Once set, this comment appears alongside records of this command in the following locations:

A comment can be any valid BSON type (string, integer, object, array, etc).

New in version 4.4.

To see the query shapes for which cached query plans exist, see List Query Shapes.

On systems running with authorization, a user must have access that includes the planCacheWrite action.

If a collection orders has the following query shape:

{
"query" : { "qty" : { "$gt" : 10 } },
"sort" : { "ord_date" : 1 },
"projection" : { },
"queryHash" : "9AAD95BE" // Available starting in MongoDB 4.2
}

The following operation clears the query plan cached for the shape:

db.runCommand(
{
planCacheClear: "orders",
query: { "qty" : { "$gt" : 10 } },
sort: { "ord_date" : 1 }
}
)

The following example clears all the cached query plans for the orders collection:

db.runCommand(
{
planCacheClear: "orders"
}
)

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See also:

←  Query Plan Cache CommandsplanCacheClearFilters →