How to connect to postgresql using url

Question

I had asked an earlier question which did not get any replies.

Basically I get an error invalid database url when I try to do heroku db:push

Answer 1

Edit your postgresql configuration (pg_hba.conf) file and change 'host' type method to 'trust'. But be aware that this is not secure.

# TYPE  DATABASE        USER            ADDRESS                 METHOD

# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local   all             all                                     trust
# IPv4 local connections:
host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            trust
# IPv6 local connections:
host    all             all             ::1/128                 md5

Restart your postgresql server and re-run the command

$ heroku db:push postgres://postgres@localhost/myrailsdb

Here is the reference to my answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/7667344/181677