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not resolved I'm trying to extract it from postgrade and import it in MySQL

You don’t actually need an “Enable External Database Access” switch for this – that was the old model. On the current Railway setup you use TCP Proxy / DATABASE_PUBLIC_URL to reach the DB from outside, and then do a normal Postgres → MySQL migration.

A simple way to do it:

1. In your Postgres service, go to Settings → Networking → TCP Proxy, enable it and note the public host/port (or just copy DATABASE_PUBLIC_URL / PG* vars from the Variables tab).

2. Do the same for your MySQL service (so you have a host, port, user, password, and DB name for both).

3. From your own machine (or a one-off container) export from Postgres and import into MySQL. One straightforward option is CSV per table:

# 1) Export from Postgres

psql "$POSTGRES_URL" -c "\COPY my_table TO 'my_table.csv' WITH CSV HEADER"

# 2) Import into MySQL

mysql --host=... --port=... --user=... --password=... mydb \

  -e "LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'my_table.csv'

      INTO TABLE my_table

      FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' ENCLOSED BY '\"'

      LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'

      IGNORE 1 LINES;"

Repeat for each table, or use a migration tool that can read from Postgres and write to MySQL if you’d rather not deal with CSV manually.

So the missing piece isn’t a special Railway feature – it’s just:

• enable TCP Proxy / use the public URLs for both DBs

• then run a standard Postgres → MySQL migration from outside using those connection details.