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title: "Delete a Postgres Cluster · Fly Docs"
description: "!https://fly.io/docs/postgres/managing/deleting/"
date: 2023-10-17
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  - fly-io
  - infra
  - thought
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Deleting a fly postgres db cluster was not straightforward to me as the app name is not inferred from the toml like it is for the main app.


``` bash
fly apps destroy <pg-app-name>
fly pg db list -a <pg-app-name>
```