Suspend a PostgreSQL Managed Database from your account, releasing idle resources and keeping only necessary data. All service data is lost if there are no backups available. This halts billing for the cluster.

• The database's status needs to be active.

• Akamai deletes suspended clusters after 180 days.

• A successful request triggers a database_suspend event.

Permissions and scopes

To call this operation, you need the following:

• Identity and access permissions. Your user needs these roles assigned. Learn more.

  • Roles: database_admin

• OAuth scopes. Your user needs these scopes assigned. Learn more.

  • Scopes: databases:read_write

CLI

linode-cli databases postgresql-suspend 123

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