Hello, we are using Mattermost Team Edition 5.37.7. We have a channel with a lot of messages that we want to delete physically. I tried to use the CLI, but it does not work: -bash-4.2$ cd /opt/mattermost/bin/ -bash-4.2$ ./mattermost channel delete sjk5gkba9tbef8ffajbcwqfyhr Are you sure you want …

Yes, the client uses those settings. I’d suggest to bump your QueryTimeout to 300 for the time being. See if you can delete the channel, and then reduce it back. I am guessing the channel has a lot of posts which is taking a lot of time to scan through.

Problem deleting channel with CLI

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agnivade (Agniva De Sarker) February 4, 2022, 8:13am 2

Yes, the query timed out because it exceeded the SqlSettings.QueryTimeout setting. Can you mention the value you have set?

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