Resolving Heroku Postgres Connection Exhaustion and Idle Dyno Churn
A diagnostic guide for Heroku Postgres connection pool exhaustion and dyno sleep churn, with ordered checks, configuration fixes, and escalation criteria.
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herokuRestore Heroku Postgres to the Second Before the Bad Migration
Heroku Postgres point-in-time recovery lets you restore a database to any second within the retention window, enabling fine-grained rollback without rebuilding from scratch. Learn how to enable it, restore safely, and avoid common cost pitfalls.
Budgeting Heroku Postgres Connections: Pool Sizing, Deploys, and When to Add PgBouncer
Your app fails with connection refused errors when total simultaneous connections exceed Heroku Postgres max_connections. Compute the budget upfront, size pools small, and plan for deploy doublings and failovers.
Heroku Postgres: "psql: FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host"
There are a number of Heroku CLI Postgres commands that all return the same error. For example: $ heroku pg:bloat psql: FATAL: no pg_hba.conf entry for host "...", user "...", database "...", SSL off At least one of these commands has worked in the past, but does not now. The database appears to be working fine otherwise. I can access it via my application's