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Definition

cleanupOrphaned

Changed in version 4.4.

For orphaned documents generated after upgrading to MongoDB 4.4, chunk migrations and orphaned document cleanup are more resilient to failover. The cleanup process automatically resumes in the event of a failover. You no longer need to run the cleanupOrphaned command to clean up orphaned documents. Instead, use this command to wait for orphaned documents in a chunk range from a shard key's MinKey to its MaxKey for a specified namespace to be cleaned up from a majority of a shard's members.

In MongoDB 4.2 and earlier, cleanupOrphaned initiated the cleanup process for orphaned documents in a specified namespace and shard key range.

To run, issue cleanupOrphaned in the admin database directly on the mongod instance that is the primary replica set member of the shard. You do not need to disable the balancer before running cleanupOrphaned.

Note

Do not run cleanupOrphaned on a mongos instance.

Syntax

The command has the following syntax:

db.runCommand(
   {
     cleanupOrphaned: "<database>.<collection>",
     startingFromKey: <minimumShardKeyValue>, // deprecated
     secondaryThrottle: <boolean>, // deprecated
     writeConcern: <document> // deprecated
   }
)

Command Fields

cleanupOrphaned has the following fields:

Field
Type
Description
cleanupOrphaned
string
The namespace, i.e. both the database and the collection name, of the sharded collection for which to wait for cleanup of the orphaned data.
startingFromKey
document

Deprecated. Starting in MongoDB 4.4, the value of this field is not used to determine the bounds of the cleanup range. The cleanupOrphaned command waits until all orphaned documents in all ranges are cleaned up from the shard before completing, regardless of the presence of or the value of startingFromKey.

Note

The mongod continues to validate that the startingFromKey value matches the shard key pattern, even though it is not used to determine the bounds of the cleanup range.

secondaryThrottle
boolean
Deprecated. Starting in MongoDB 4.4, this field has no effect.
writeConcern
document
Deprecated. Starting in MongoDB 4.4, this field has no effect. Orphaned documents are always cleaned up from a majority of a shard's members ({ writeConcern: { w: "majority" } }) before the cleanupOrphaned command returns a response.

Behavior

Determine Range

Starting in MongoDB 4.4, the value of this field is not used to determine the bounds of the cleanup range. The cleanupOrphaned command waits until all orphaned documents in all ranges in the namespace are cleaned up from the shard before completing, regardless of the presence of or value of startingFromKey.

Required Access

On systems running with authorization, you must have clusterAdmin privileges to run cleanupOrphaned.

Output

Return Document

Each cleanupOrphaned command returns a document containing a subset of the following fields:

cleanupOrphaned.ok

Equal to 1 on success.

A value of 1 indicates that either:

  • No orphaned documents remain in the cleanupOrphaned namespace on the shard, or

  • The collection referenced in the cleanupOrphaned namespace is not sharded.

A value of 0 indicates that an error has occurred.

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