My Railway Postgres service is crashing, and the connected Node app cannot start because database connections fail.

The app logs show:

Failed to start server: AggregateError [ECONNREFUSED]

at async Object.ensureBaseSchema (/app/src/db.js:13:21)

at async start (/app/src/server.js:13:5)

and also:

Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 10.178.59.162:5432

Error: connect ETIMEDOUT 10.178.59.162:5432

The Postgres service itself also showed:

ERROR (catatonit:2): failed to exec pid1: No such file or directory

So this looks like the app is failing only because Postgres is unavailable / crashed.

Has anyone seen this combination before?

What is the safest recovery path without losing data?