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cjohansen 2025-11-10T12:52:30.491969Z
I managed to misconfigure a schema attribute, and now have an attribute that has value type ref that should have been a string. I thought I could delete attributes that have never been asserted, but I'm getting "unsupported-alter-schema". Is there any way I can remove this faulty attribute? It has never been used.
favila 2025-11-10T12:56:45.884109Z
You cannot retract an attribute entity or change it in any other than https://docs.datomic.com/schema/schema-change.html. However note on that page that you can rename an attribute, so you can rename your busted one to something like dontuse and then make a new one using the name you want
cjohansen 2025-11-10T12:57:51.526979Z
Aha, that will partially cover this embarassing mistake 😅 Thanks 🙏
leifericf 2025-11-10T16:21:28.007149Z
And maybe rename it again to reuse it the next time you need a new attribute 😅
leifericf 2025-11-10T21:21:23.430529Z
I just so happened to hear about this specific problem and the solution discussed here in https://youtu.be/H854fF6K2_o (at time 42:50).
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okwori 2025-11-11T15:03:15.718899Z
I remember this talk, I felt attacked at 43:24 🙂
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leifericf 2025-11-12T05:25:30.495759Z
Thanks! For some reason, I can’t copy links with timestamps in the YouTube mobile app.