Hi,

My app is based on PayloadCMS and the build process requires DB access. My deploy is failing with the following error logs, meaning the DATABASE_URL is not reachable by the app at deploy time. How can I resolve this? (error log redacted due to length)

pnpm --filter @namespace/my-app build

45s

apps/my-app |  WARN  The field "pnpm.onlyBuiltDependencies" was found in /app/apps/my-app/package.json. This will not take effect. You should configure "pnpm.onlyBuiltDependencies" at the root of the workspace instead.

packages/section-headline-plugin |  WARN  The field "pnpm.onlyBuiltDependencies" was found in /app/packages/section-headline-plugin/package.json. This will not take effect. You should configure "pnpm.onlyBuiltDependencies" at the root of the workspace instead.

> @namespace/my-app@0.1.0 build /app/apps/my-app

> cross-env NODE_OPTIONS=--no-deprecation next build

Warning: Found multiple lockfiles. Selecting /app/pnpm-lock.yaml.

Consider removing the lockfiles at:

* /app/apps/my-app/pnpm-lock.yaml

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▲ Next.js 15.4.4

Creating an optimized production build ...

✓ Compiled successfully in 34.0s

Collecting page data ...

[22:28:42] ERROR: Error: cannot connect to Postgres. Details: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND postgres.railway.internal

err: {

"type": "Error",

"message": "getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND postgres.railway.internal",

"stack":

Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND postgres.railway.internal

at /app/apps/my-app/.next/server/chunks/1403.js:6:15208

at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)

at async hM (/app/apps/my-app/.next/server/chunks/1403.js:346:7018)

at async Object.hN [as connect] (/app/apps/my-app/.next/server/chunks/1403.js:346:7262)

at async bE.init (/app/apps/my-app/.next/server/chunks/1403.js:198:7519)

at async bH (/app/apps/my-app/.next/server/chunks/1403.js:198:10684)

at async Object.o [as generateStaticParams] (/app/apps/my-app/.next/server/app/(frontend)/posts/page/[pageNumber]/page.js:2:9219)

at async builtRouteParams (/app/node_modules/.pnpm/next@15.4.4_@babel+core@7.28.4_@playwright+test@1.54.1_react-dom@19.1.0_react@19.1.0__react@19.1.0_sass@1.77.4/node_modules/next/dist/build/static-paths/app.js:396:36)

at async buildAppStaticPaths (/app/node_modules/.pnpm/next@15.4.4_@babel+core@7.28.4_@playwright+test@1.54.1_react-dom@19.1.0_react@19.1.0__react@19.1.0_sass@1.77.4/node_modules/next/dist/build/static-paths/app.js:366:25)

at async /app/node_modules/.pnpm/next@15.4.4_@babel+core@7.28.4_@playwright+test@1.54.1_react-dom@19.1.0_react@19.1.0__react@19.1.0_sass@1.77.4/node_modules/next/dist/build/utils.js:925:79

"errno": -3008,

"code": "ENOTFOUND",

"syscall": "getaddrinfo",

"hostname": "postgres.railway.internal"

}

[22:28:42] ERROR: Error: cannot connect to Postgres. Details: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND postgres.railway.internal

err: {

"type": "Error",

"message": "getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND postgres.railway.internal",

"stack":

Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND postgres.railway.internal

at /app/apps/my-app/.next/server/chunks/1403.js:6:15208

at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:105:5)

at async /app/node_modules/.pnpm/next@15.4.4_@babel+core@7.28.4_@playwright+test@1.54.1_react-dom@19.1.0_react@19.1.0__react@19.1.0_sass@1.77.4/node_modules/next/dist/build/utils.js:925:79

"errno": -3008,

"code": "ENOTFOUND",

"syscall": "getaddrinfo",

"hostname": "postgres.railway.internal"

}

⨯ Next.js build worker exited with code: 1 and signal: null

/app/apps/my-app:

 ERR_PNPM_RECURSIVE_RUN_FIRST_FAIL  @namespace/my-app@0.1.0 build: cross-env NODE_OPTIONS=--no-deprecation next build

Exit status 1

ERROR: failed to build: failed to solve: process "sh -c pnpm --filter @namespace/my-app build" did not complete successfully: exit code: 1