# Altering retention policy in influxdb

**URL:** https://community.influxdata.com/t/altering-retention-policy-in-influxdb/6396
**Category:** Systems
**Created:** [August 28, 2018, 3:03pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/altering-retention-policy-in-influxdb/6396 "2018-08-28T15:03:40Z")
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### Author: ![rishi13](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@rishi13](https://community.influxdata.com/u/rishi13)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2018, 3:03pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/altering-retention-policy-in-influxdb/6396/1 "2018-08-28T15:03:40Z")

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If I altering my active retention policy, will it be immediately applied to incoming data (shard creation as per new policy) or wait till shard duration/duration of the older retention policy to expire?