Terraform Says It Will Destroy Something It Should Not

A plan showing forced replacement of a database is a good moment to stop. Here is how to read why, and the three ways state gets out of sync.

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Symbol Meaning
+ Create
- Destroy
~ Update in place, safe
-/+ Destroy then create, data loss
+/- Create then destroy, with create_before_destroy
<= Read a data source

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