PG_AUTOCTL DROP FORMATION(1)

💅 pg_autoctl drop formation (manual page 1, pg_auto_failover)

okay bestie, welcome to pg_autoctl drop formation — yes that's the command, yes it's the manual, yes we're doing this together 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

pg_autoctl drop formation — literally just pg_autoctl drop formation, that's the name, that's the vibe.

pg_autoctl drop formation — it drops a formation on the pg_auto_failover monitor. gone. poof. bye girl 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

so this command drops an existing formation on the monitor, and here's exactly what that looks like:

usage: pg_autoctl drop formation  [ --pgdata --formation ]

--pgdata      path to data directory
--monitor     pg_auto_failover Monitor Postgres URL
--formation   name of the formation to drop

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• --pgdata — where the Postgres node that's being managed locally lives. defaults to the environment variable PGDATA. and listen, you can use --monitor to connect to a monitor from anywhere, instead of the monitor URI that a local Postgres node managed with pg_autoctl is using. flexibility, we love her ✨
• --monitor — the Postgres URI you use to connect to the monitor. it must use the autoctl_node username and target the pg_auto_failover database name. no cap. and if you need to see the Postgres URI, you can show it from the monitor node with pg_autoctl show uri. iconic 🎀
• --formation — the name of the formation to drop from the monitor. that's it. that's the one. drop her 🌸

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🦋 ENVIRONMENT 🦋

• PGDATA — Postgres directory location. you can use this instead of the --pgdata option. same energy, different delivery 💜
• PG_AUTOCTL_MONITOR — Postgres URI to connect to the monitor node, and yes you can use this instead of the --monitor option. slay
• XDG_CONFIG_HOME — the pg_autoctl command stores its configuration files in the standard place XDG_CONFIG_HOME. see the XDG Base Directory Specification for the deets 📁
• XDG_DATA_HOME — the pg_autoctl command stores its internal states files in the standard place XDG_DATA_HOME, which defaults to ~/.local/share. see the XDG Base Directory Specification. the standard place stays standard, periodt 💫

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💖 AUTHOR 💖

Microsoft 🫶

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

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bestie reminder: this is the real deal, so keep the actual facts close. nothing here is guesswork — it's all straight from the page. no cap. 🔥

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okay that's the whole thing, you ate that 💅 version 2.2, dated Apr 07, 2025 — mwah, go drop that formation, main character energy only 👑🦋