How to Destroy PostgreSQL Database Clusters

To create a Database via the command-line, follow these steps:

1. Install doctl, the DigitalOcean command-line tool.

2. Create a personal access token, and save it for use with doctl.

3. Use the token to grant doctl access to your DigitalOcean account.

                 doctl auth init
               

4. Finally, create a Database with doctl databases delete. The basic usage looks like this, but you'll want to read the usage docs for more details:

                 doctl databases delete <database-cluster-id> [flags]
               

   The following example deletes the database cluster with the ID f81d4fae-7dec-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf6

                      doctl databases delete f81d4fae-7dec-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf6
                   

To destroy a database cluster using the DigitalOcean API, follow these steps:

1. Create a personal access token, and save it for use with the API.

2. Send a DELETE request to https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/databases/{database_cluster_uuid}

   cURL

   To destroy a database cluster with cURL, call:

   
                   curl -X DELETE \
   -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
   -H "Authorization: Bearer $DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN" \
   "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/databases/9cc10173-e9ea-4176-9dbc-a4cee4c4ff30" 

   Go

   Go developers can use Godo, the official DigitalOcean V2 API client for Go. To destroy a database cluster with Godo, use the following code:

   
                   import (
       "context"
       "github.com/digitalocean/godo"
   )
   
   func main() {
       pat := "mytoken"
   
       client := godo.NewFromToken(pat)
       ctx := context.TODO()
   
       _, err := client.Databases.Delete(ctx, "9cc10173-e9ea-4176-9dbc-a4cee4c4ff30")
   }

   Python

   
                   import os
   from pydo import Client
   
   client = Client(token=os.environ.get("DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN"))
   
   delete_resp = client.databases.destroy_cluster(database_cluster_uuid="a7abba8")