Ability to rename database?

[mdavidii]

I have a large vectordb actively being queried by others named 'live'. I have a copy of 'live' db with the name 'staging' running in the same cluster that I've been doing development and adjustments against. Currently, the only way to replace the 'live' db with 'staging' is to:

1. backup 'staging' db
2. delete 'live' db
3. restore 'staging' with -r flag to rename to 'live'

The problem is the db is huge (15GB) and it takes over 4 hours JUST to do the restore!
My question is, is there a way to more quickly:

1. delete 'live' db
2. rename 'staging' db to 'live'

This would cut out all the duplication and space requirements and save many many hours for me.

Any advice would be much appreciated!

[xiaofan-luan]

why don't you alias the collection instead of alias the database?

[mdavidii]

The vectordb already has close to 1000 collections, one for each user. I'm making structural changes to the data format and changing what/how gets ingested, so I don't want to touch the existing 'live' database with my modifications. Once it's done I need to apply the changes all at once, so a database swap makes the most sense.

Does your comment suggest that renaming a database is not possible? (yet???)

[xiaofan-luan]

yes, right now we don't have it and it's not our priority unless we see more request on this feature.