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How to downscale a Managed Database

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I have a managed Postgres Database that I temporarily scaled up to the $60/month version, to account for an expected spike. Since the spike is over, I’d like to go back down to the $30/month node plan.

However, these plans are greyed out, with the Text “Disk must be at least the same size” superimposed over the items.

Is there a way to force-migrate the database back to a lower plan without destroying my data?

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moisey January 6, 2021

There is no way to force migrate a database to a lower plan that has less disk space. Because that would require a file system level of migration which we do not support. We do not analyze your FS to determine how much diskspace is used and how to do that and truncating a file system could be dangerous depending on disk space used.

You would need to create a new smaller cluster with the desired space and then import your data.

Additionally, depending on your load spikes, if it is mostly READ access you can create READ replicas to increase the capacity of your DB without having to resize to a larger size.

You can also setup a primary DB as a WRITE only server, while creating multiple READ replicas to scale your DB usage without changing disk space and giving you more flexibility in spinning up additional resources and then destroying them when they are no longer in use.

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  • winsmith January 8, 2021

    This is all very sensible, but I wish I had known this before I scaled up the database server. My options are now “pay more than I’m comfortable with, forever” or “create a new database server and migrate all my data over”, all because I wanted to try out a DB server with more CPUs and RAM for a moment.

    Since I hadn’t even realised the disk space would change, I recommend giving a warning that this operation is not reversible in the UI.

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  • rubenmch January 20, 2021

    Offering the option to change the instance size (RAM, CPU) keeping the smaller disk size would also be very helpful for temporary spikes allowing downscaling after the spike.

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matheusstag January 22, 2021

So, the $15/month and $30/month have the same disk size (25GB), but I can’t scale down. Why? The $15/month was inactive for me =(

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