Deleting old fields from the api response

Questions and Answers
1

Hello guys!

I noticed that if I delete a field from a component or a collection/single type, the field remains in the api response. Is there any way to clean the old fields in order to avoid doing it manually?

2

You sadly have to drop these columns manually in your database. I use postgres so this is the way I had to do it PostgreSQL DROP COLUMN: Remove One or More Columns of a Table

3

Thanks very much for the response! Yeap, I am aware that we could do it like that but I was hoping that there is a better way to do it.

4

Yup it’s related to Deleting/Updating content-type doesn't drop/migrate the database · Issue #1114 · strapi/strapi · GitHub

5

This seems a little weird. I understand you don’t want to delete data but shouldn’t we able to choose to do this after we click a button that we understand data will be destroyed?

6

We will be automatically handling this in the v4 (adding native schema migration stuff)