We have followed below blog to setup Discourse to use separate postgres(AWS RDS). [image] Configure Discourse to use a separate PostgreSQL server Self-Hosting Let’s say you’re using AWS RDS, or an existing PostgreSQL server managed elsewhere. It’s fairly straightforward to get Discourse to use such a setup, without needing to grant superuser privileges to anything that Discourse itself runs. Here’s how. Prerequisites Discourse requires PostgreSQL’s major version to match what we ship with in our docker images; if you try to run on a newer or older version, it might work, but we don’t guarantee it, and if something breaks in the future, you get to … Getting below error(image attached) after running ./launcher rebuild app: Caused by: PG::InvalidSchemaName: ERROR: no schema has been selected to create in LINE 1: CREATE TABLE "schema_migrations" ("version" character varyin... ^ /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/rack-mini-profiler-3.0.0/lib/patches/db/pg.rb:110:in `exec' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/rack-mini-profiler-3.0.0/lib/patches/db/pg.rb:110:in `async_exec' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/activerecord-7.0.4.3/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql/database_statements.rb:48:in `block (2 levels) in execute' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/activesupport-7.0.4.3/lib/active_support/concurrency/share_lock.rb:187:in `yield_shares' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/activesupport-7.0.4.3/lib/active_support/dependencies/interlock.rb:41:in `permit_concurrent_loads' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/activerecord-7.0.4.3/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql/database_statements.rb:47:in `block in execute' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/activesupport-7.0.4.3/lib/active_support/concurrency/load_interlock_aware_monitor.rb:25:in `handle_interrupt' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/activesupport-7.0.4.3/lib/active_support/concurrency/load_interlock_aware_monitor.rb:25:in `block in synchronize' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/activesupport-7.0.4.3/lib/active_support/concurrency/load_interlock_aware_monitor.rb:21:in `handle_interrupt' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/activesupport-7.0.4.3/lib/active_support/concurrency/load_interlock_aware_monitor.rb:21:in `synchronize' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/activerecord-7.0.4.3/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:765:in `block in log' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/activesupport-7.0.4.3/lib/active_support/notifications/instrumenter.rb:24:in `instrument' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/activerecord-7.0.4.3/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:756:in `log' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/activerecord-7.0.4.3/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/postgresql/database_statements.rb:46:in `execute' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/activerecord-7.0.4.3/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/schema_statements.rb:325:in `create_table' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/activerecord-7.0.4.3/lib/active_record/schema_migration.rb:23:in `create_table' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/activerecord-7.0.4.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:1259:in `initialize' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/activerecord-7.0.4.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:1117:in `new' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/activerecord-7.0.4.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:1117:in `up' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/activerecord-7.0.4.3/lib/active_record/migration.rb:1092:in `migrate' /var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/3.2.0/gems/activerecord-7.0.4.3/lib/active_record/tasks/database_tasks.rb:262:in `migrate' /var/www/discourse/lib/tasks/db.rake:246:in `block (2 levels) in ' /var/www/discourse/lib/distributed_mutex.rb:53:in `block in synchroniz [image]

DB setting in app.yml are as below: env: DISCOURSE_DB_USERNAME: discourse DISCOURSE_DB_PASSWORD: “XXX” DISCOURSE_DB_HOST: xxx.rds.amazonaws.com DISCOURSE_DB_NAME: discourse I am able to connect with this DB using pgAdmin. I have executed below commands in this DB for discourse: CREATE USER discourse PASSWORD ‘XXX’; CREATE DATABASE discourse OWNER discourse; CREATE EXTENSION hstore; CREATE EXTENSION pg_trgm;

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External postgres setup not working

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) March 28, 2023, 4:17pm 2

Without looking too closely, I think that might mean that you created the database server, but didn’t create the discourse database? Or didn’t provide the database name in the settings?

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