Feedback: ALTER DATABASE

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#22,395 opened on Jan 28, 2026 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 2/5
Estimated time: 1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness: 62/100

Issue type: Documentation
Clarity: Clearly specified
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: sql
Domain: databases, documentation

Research direction

Open the ALTER DATABASE documentation page at the URL in the issue and locate the DROP REGION guidance. Review the requested warnings about temporary RF increases, extra disk usage, and manual CONFIGURE ZONE state, plus the RF=5 guidance for single-region logical data. Done means these points are clearly documented.

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Description

Page: https://cockroachlabs.com/docs/v25.4/alter-database.html

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Additional details

Per Zendesk ticket #30349 the customer has requested we improve messaging/documentation around ALTER DATABASE … DROP REGION

We should surface an explicit estimate (or at least warnings) about:

Temporary RF increases
Expected extra disk usage
Suggest to remove manual CONFIGURE ZONE state before region removal

We should also make it clear in docs that if your logical data is all in one region, you probably don’t want a region‑survival / RF=5 profile while decommissioning other regions.

Jira issue: DOC-15977

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