I am attempting to restore a local snapshot of a database into a heroku dev instance.
heroku pgbackups:restore --app app_name HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_AMBER_URL https://www.dropbox.com/etc
But I consistently receive the following error
HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_AMBER_URL <---restore--- db.dump
Retrieving... done
! An error occurred and your restore did not finish.
The database snapshot was captured using the pg_dump string in the heroku docs:
PGPASSWORD=pwd pg_dump -Fc --no-acl --no-owner -h localhost -U postgres db > db.dump
and the dump file is in a dropbox share (so available with direct URL access)
Both Heroku and the local database are PG 9.2.
Heroku logs contain all of the output from pgbackups, which will help track down the issue.
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I am trying to find out how to migrate my PostgreSQL database easily from Heroku to Railway. I have tried using heroku pg:backups:capture --app APP_NAME and heroku pg:backups:download with pg_restore and no success.
I had the error
pg_restore: error: corrupt tar header found in PGDMP (expected 0, computed 19471) file position 512
TL;DR:
heroku login
heroku run 'pg_dump $DATABASE_URL' > <filename.sql> --app <heroku-app-name>
PGPASSWORD=$PGPASSWORD psql -h $PGHOST -U $PGUSER -p $PGPORT -d $PGDATABASE -f <filename.sql>
Details:
If you logged in successfully after running heroku login, $DATABASE_URL is read from your Heroku environment, so no need to insert the database url by hand.
<filename.sql>: specify any filename you like. You will use it later to import the database.
<heroku-app-name>: The name of your Heroku (backend) app with the Postgres database.
Provision a new PostgreSQL database in your railway project and grab $PGPASSWORD, $PGHOST, $PGUSER, $PGPORT, and $PGDATABASE from the Variables tab.
This is what it should look like
Example (with dummy credentials):
heroku login
heroku run 'pg_dump $DATABASE_URL' > mydatabasebackup.sql --app my-heroku-backend
PGPASSWORD=hjUasj8hasA6ahsjJash -h containers-us-west-15.railway.app -U postgres -p 6473 -W -F t -d railway mydatabasebackup.sql
I have a Heroku app and it has a Heroku postgres addon attached. Im trying to connect to the remote heroku database from the Gitpod (online IDE) command line.
heroku pg:psql -a my-heroku-app
But its giving the following error:
--> Connecting to postgresql-rigid-XXXXX
psql: error: could not connect to server: FATAL: role "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" does not exist
And I get the same error when I try to connect with the connection URL
psql postgres://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:ppppppppppppppppp#ec2-0000000000.compute-1.amazonaws.com:5432/ddddddddddddd
I have properly installed postgres and heroku-cli in Gitpod and they work fine.
Appreciate your help.
Thanks!
Ok I found the answer thanks to this and this.
heroku pg:psql does'nt seem to work in Gitpod. So I followed this to import a db dump file into heroku postgres. From Gitpot command line I did
pg_dump -Fc --no-acl --no-owner -h localhost -U myuser mydb > mydb.dump
and got the db dump file from my local (Gitpod) database. Uploaded it to my google drive and got the publicly downloadable link. Then did
heroku pg:backups:restore https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?xxxxxxxx DATABASE_URL -a my-heroku-app
Now I have all the data in my heroku postgres database.
Cheers!
I tried this on RubyMine Terminal:
heroku pg:push ror_development postgres://budobqbtsbzmlx:hUNYKkaMap-cExovtPJat4ajPm#ec2-54-217-208-1 58.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:5432/dbhsnsvf36h8tu
But its return me error:
Unknown database: postgres://budobqbtsbzmlx:hUNYKkaMap-cExovtPJat4ajPm#ec2-54-217-208-158.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.
com:5432/dbhsnsvf36h8tu. Valid options are: DATABASE_URL, HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_ONYX_URL
and also this error:
Connecting to HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_ONYX_URL (DATABASE_URL)
'psql' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Can somebody show detail sample of doing this action on windows ?
The error message states that you should use the environment variables rather than explicit names. The documentation states you should do something like:
heroku pg:push mylocaldb HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_ONYX
That said, I've never used this technique but did manage to successfully push my local db to heroku postgresql using this procedure.
Here's the short version:
install pgbackups:
heroku addons:add pgbackups
backup your local db:
pg_dump -Fc --no-acl --no-owner -h localhost -U <user> <dbname> > local_pg.dump
upload this file to a web server (I use S3 or dropbox). Let's assume http://www.dropbox.com/me/local_pg.dump
now restore into your heroky db:
heroku pgbackups:restore DATABASE 'http://www.dropbox.com/me/local_pg.dump'
I've been trying to dump a database file to my heroku app.
I generated a PG dump file by calling
pg_dump mydb > db.sql
Then I uploaded that to an amazons3 and uploaded it to heroku via:
C:\Users\user\Documents\GitHub\gvf-api>heroku pgbackups:restore
HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_GREEN_URL 's3.amazonaws.com/mydb'
The fictional url really works so that's not the issue
I get a Retrieving... done and a Restoring... done message when I run the call.
Problem is no data in the tables.
also I've used the dump file to re-create the database on my local machine successfully.
Any suggestions?
I added the following modifiers to the dump command as suggested here,
pg_dump -Fc --no-acl --no-owner -h localhost -U myuser mydb > mydb.dump
After a few minutes the data did show up.
I have a java app and postgresql database to go with it that is running on Heroku. I can push my app just fine, but what about the DB contents? I have exported a full dump from the database, but I don't know how I could import that.
By googling, you can find about db:push which is a limited rubygem, not pushing all the stuff needed. I have sequences, bigint datatypes etc. I also tried importing using heroku pg:psql --app MYAPP < db_all.out which just connects and stops, and going to heroku pg:psql --app MYAPP and issuing \i db_all.out complaints about permissions.
How should I do it?
You can run the pg_restore command from your local machine using the credentials given by heroku pg:credentials HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_<COLOR>.
To help others who still stumble upon this issue, what works for me is hgmnz's answer, but with a few modifications.
To be more precise:
Create a dump from the source PostgreSQL database
$ PGPASSWORD=YOUR_PG_PASSWORD pg_dump -Fc --no-acl --no-owner -h localhost -U YOUR_PG_USER YOUR_DB_NAME > YOUR_DB_NAME.dump
Get the Heroku Postgres credentials for your heroku app
$ heroku pg:credentials:url -a YOUR_APP_NAME
Attempt to import PostgreSQL dump to Heroku using the credentials above
$ pg_restore --verbose --clean --no-acl --no-owner -h HOSTNAME -U USER -d DATABASE -p PORT PATH/TO/YOUR_DB_NAME.dump --password
Enter the password received from the Heroku Postgres credentials
It should then import the dump successfully
This is very simple and had worked for me:
heroku pg:psql -a {YOUR_APP} -f {YOUR_DUMP_PATH}
I find this a better way then using the standard input syntax (like in the OP example), since it uses an option given by the Heroku command itself.
You may want to check if your dump file it's OK before submitting (in my case it wasn't).