Postgres proxy connectivity issues + Prisma P1001 during ongoing deployment outage
okseries
HOBBYOP

a month ago

Hi Railway team,

I'm experiencing intermittent connectivity issues with my PostgreSQL database via the Railway proxy.

Database:

switchyard.proxy.rlwy.net:35587

Database name: nubill_db

Symptoms:

- Prisma throws initialization error P1001:

"Can't reach database server at switchyard.proxy.rlwy.net:35587"

- Application fails to start because DB becomes unreachable.

- External clients (TablePlus) connect and then disconnect randomly.

- Sometimes queries work, sometimes connection drops immediately.

- Even simple queries fail intermittently.

Important observations:

- Only 1 active connection exists in pg_stat_activity when issue occurs, so this is NOT connection saturation.

- The same deployment worked correctly 2 days ago with no code changes.

- Issue started during the current Railway deployment/metal outage shown on status page.

- Build logs also show "context canceled" errors during rebuilds.

This strongly suggests proxy/network instability rather than application-side issues.

Questions:

1) Is the PostgreSQL proxy affected by the current incident?

2) Is there any recommended workaround while the incident is ongoing?

3) Should we expect intermittent connectivity until incident resolution?

Thanks.

Solved

1 Replies

a month ago

Hey there!
It looks like this was a part of a recent incident we have. I just checked and it should be good to go now. Can you give it a look and let me know what you're seeing?

Post mortem is here in case you're interested in reading it.
https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-february-11-2026


Status changed to Awaiting User Response Railway 26 days ago


Railway
BOT

19 days ago

This thread has been marked as solved automatically due to a lack of recent activity. Please re-open this thread or create a new one if you require further assistance. Thank you!

Status changed to Solved Railway 19 days ago


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