How to wipe db records that have forward slash in Node?

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How do I wipe or empty the database?

I have a weird bug where I created keys that have forward slashes in them, and now I can’t delete those records.

I’m using Node JS. I tried:

db.delete('/new/new2').then(()=>{console.log('deleted'})

const Database = require("@replit/database");
const db = new Database();
const { AsyncLocalStorage } = require("async_hooks");
// empties db
db.empty().then(()=>{console.log("emptied");process.exit()});

Neither works.

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It won’t hit all of the keys (If they match certain conditions), but 99% of keys can be erased by doing replit nuke --i-am-sure in the Shell tab.

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are you aware of such conditions? is it a superset of the following regex? /.*?

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Any keys that become invalid (such as starting with a /) cannot be modified. I have a PR to fix one such set of keys on Replit’s python repo:

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Interesting how there is that undocumented limitation on the keys. Anyone care to speculate why that is the case?

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Also, replit nuke didn’t work. What now?

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If you have keys that start with a forward slash, then you simply cannot remove those keys. It is a known bug in Replit’s database setup.