Hi,

After migrating my project to a Railway Workspace, my API service started crashing in a loop.

Before the migration, everything was working correctly.

Current behavior

• Build succeeds normally.
• The service starts.
• During startup, it runs npx prisma migrate deploy.
• Prisma throws the following error:

Error: P1001: Can't reach database server at `postgres.railway.internal:5432`

• The container exits.
• Railway restarts it.
• The crash loop continues.

Stack

• Node.js API
• Prisma ORM
• Railway Postgres (same project)
• DATABASE_URL is set as a reference to Postgres

Environment configuration

DATABASE_URL is configured as:

${{Postgres.DATABASE_URL}}

The Postgres service shows:

• Deployment Online
• Required Variables OK

No changes were made to the database service itself — only the repository was migrated into a workspace.

Even after rolling back to a previously working commit, the issue persists.

Additional details

• The API and Postgres are in the same Railway project.
• The start command is:

npx prisma migrate deploy && node dist/src/server.js

It appears that after migrating to a workspace, the internal hostname postgres.railway.internal is no longer reachable from the service.

Could this be related to networking changes when moving to a workspace?