How to Configure Database Retension Policies in InfludDB 3

InfluxDB 3
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The “create a database” documentation mentions that retention policies are integral to a dtabase in InfluxDB 3, but I can’t find any documentation of how to specify the duration of a retention policy for a newly created database, or how to modify the policy for an existing database.

I’ve searched:

  • The influxdb3 cli tool, influxdb3 create database --help-all
  • create a database
  • Generic documentation for both Core and Enterprise flavors.

Can anyone show how to set this up? I have a large volume of data which I would like to carefully bound.

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Hello,
Unfortunately retention policies aren’t a part of InfluxDB 3 yet. You can use the python processing engine to delete data with the v3 api.

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Hi @slowdawg sorry I included the wrong api docs
Deletes for databases and tables are available with the api for enterprise:
api docs
but not core, retention policies are expected to land extremely soon.