删除名称中带有 `.` 的 AWS Athena 表

Question

I had a client upload a malformed table with a name like foo.bar into an Athena instance. What syntax can I use to drop the table? If I try

drop table if exists `foo.bar`

The command silently fails, presumably because the parser interprets foo as the database name. If I try adding the database name explicitly as

drop table if exists dbname."foo.bar"

or

drop table if exists dbname.`foo.bar`

I get a parse error from Athena.

Unfortunately, I don't have access to the Glue console to remove the table from there so I was wondering if it's possible to drop such a table via Athena SQL. Thanks!

Answer 1

Even if you don't have access to the Glue console you can use the the AWS CLI to delete the table directly using the Glue API:

aws glue delete-table --database-name dbname --name foo.bar