[thockingoog]

LOL. Thanks for the shout out. I am sorry you had a bad experience. Please be assured that we are working on it, and that we take this seriously.

[honkycat]

If I may be so bold, where should I direct this complaint so that people hear it:

When you delete a CloudSQL instance, it also deletes the back-ups associated with that instance along with it.

There is also no way to mark a CloudSQL instance as "protected" so one bad keypress can lose you your production database and all backups.

This is... cartoonishly dumb. Clownish.

- Cloudsql instance deletion protection should exist

- Those backups should be preserved somewhere when I delete the instance.

[sandGorgon]

agreed - backups have nothing to do with an instance. i should be able to spin up and down postgresql instances, but backups should be stored (and billed) as per cloud storage rates.