bored-kangaroo-88486
06/18/2025, 8:39 AMpulumi up to deploy a GCP Postgres SQL DB, I ran pulumi destroy but got the error:
failed to delete instance because deletion_protection is set to true. Set it to false to proceed with instance deletion
I then updated my pulumi typescript code to disable delete protection on the DB and ran pulumi up to apply that change. I checked in GCP Console to confirm that delete protection was indeed disabled.
I then reran pulumi destroy but got the same error again. I then ran pulumi refresh and tried pulumi destroy once more but still get the same error.
I have pulumi v3.177.0, typescript 5.8.3, and node v20.18.3bored-kangaroo-88486
06/18/2025, 10:44 AMdeletionProtection and deletionProtectionEnabled as follows:
const dbInstance = new gcp.sql.DatabaseInstance(
"...",
{
...,
deletionProtection: false,
settings: {
...,
deletionProtectionEnabled: false,
},
},
{
...
}
);
I was originally only setting deletionProtectionEnabled. With the above change, running pulumi up followed by pulumi destroy finally worked.bored-kangaroo-88486
06/18/2025, 10:49 AMdeletionProtectionEnabled to false is required to affect the actual GCP DB. Setting deletionProtection to false allows pulumi to delete this resource (but only if deletionProtectionEnabled is also false).