Tag: postgresql

Rails 4.0 / Postgresql / Heroku / Connection timeout

Post author By anthony
Post date March 1, 2014
Categories In Heroku, Rails
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If you attempt to deploy a new application to Heroku using Rails 4.0.0, with a default postgresql configuration in your gemfile, such as: gem ‘pg’ Then, heroku will assume you are requesting PG version 0.12.2. This causes errors. Instead, to avoid connection errors (timeout, undefined constant, etc), you need a more recent version: gem ‘pg’, […]

Heroku postgreSQL – password authentication failed for user

Post author By anthony
Post date December 5, 2013
Categories In Heroku
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If you just created a new PostgreSQL database for your Heroku App and are running into the following error: “password authentication failed for user” Try running the following command at the CLI: heroku pg:promote THE_DATABASE_NAME_HERE This should clear up the issue.