my service can't connect to the postgres database
hornta
PROOP

8 days ago

I just tried to deploy some code changes for my service and noticed how suddenly my service can't connect to the postgres database using the DATABASE_URL. It has worked wonderfully for the last couple of days.

I've tried and I can connect to the postgres database using the public database url on my local machine, but something makes my app not able to reach it. Are they still on the same network?

I've had this problem before, however, that time I was migrating a postgres from a region to another region and thought that was the cause to this but since I haven't touched the db in that way this time I have literally no idea.

Deploy logs:

2025-11-26T15:26:16.000000000Z [inf] Starting Container 2025-11-26T15:26:17.395204416Z

[err] ! Corepack is about to download https://registry.npmjs.org/pnpm/-/pnpm-10.23.0.tgz 2025-11-26T15:26:20.617740994Z [err] 2025-11-26T15:26:20.617816221Z

[inf] Prisma DATABASE_URL: postgresql://postgres:LMamCWQlskZqNCoHyRsHHpvRGcQOeMMK@postgres-dob5.railway.internal:5432/railway 2025-11-26T15:26:20.617823882Z

[err] Loaded Prisma config from prisma.config.ts. 2025-11-26T15:26:21.591211805Z

[inf] Prisma schema loaded from prisma/models 2025-11-26T15:26:21.591218500Z

[inf] Datasource "db": PostgreSQL database "railway", schema "public" at "postgres-dob5.railway.internal:5432" 2025-11-26T15:26:26.585652303Z

[inf] 2025-11-26T15:26:26.585658906Z

[err] Error: P1001: Can't reach database server at postgres-dob5.railway.internal:5432 2025-11-26T15:26:26.585665348Z [err] 2025-11-26T15:26:26.585673145Z

[err] Please make sure your database server is running at postgres-dob5.railway.internal:5432. 2025-11-26T15:26:33.000000000Z

[inf] Stopping Container

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4 Replies

Railway
BOT

8 days ago

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hornta
PROOP

8 days ago

The first post the bot responded with was the one I was making the other day: https://station.railway.com/questions/changed-region-of-postgres-db-and-now-da-1fb87d8e I closed that post since I had to create a completely new database for it to work, but I don't want to do it now since I don't want to loose my data and it could very much happen again.

brody
EMPLOYEE

8 days ago

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Status changed to Open brody • 8 days ago

hornta
PROOP

8 days ago

One thing I've checked is that I'm not trying to connect to the db during the Build phase, which according to the docs can't access things on the private network. But I think I'm in the deploy phase(if that's even a phase), because that's where the problem occurs. This is my railway.json:

{
	"$schema": "https://railway.com/railway.schema.json",
	"build": {
		"builder": "DOCKERFILE",
		"dockerfilePath": "apps/backend/Dockerfile"
	},
	"deploy": {
		"startCommand": "node dist/main.js",
		"preDeployCommand": ["pnpm prisma migrate deploy"],
		"restartPolicyType": "ON_FAILURE",
		"restartPolicyMaxRetries": 10,
		"healthcheckPath": "/health",
		"healthcheckTimeout": 100
	}
}
hornta
PROOP

6 days ago

I added this to the connection url connect_timeout=500. My pre deploy command now takes five minutes which is unacceptable but I hope Railway can look into this matter more.

Status changed to Solved brody • 6 days ago

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