Hey, I was wondering how do you access Postgresql details? Like where would I see the pw and the user for instance? I know the rest of course.

We configure the database to trust and allow connections from the same IP without a password, so there isn’t a password for you to find. If you have a standard Discourse install, you will need to: change the app.yml configuration to expose the 5432 port to the external world create a new user…

Take a look at this Topic, it gives you the series of commands you need about half way down: [image] PostgreSQL 13 update announcements warning WARNING! If your database is very large, you will need a lot of extra disk space (2x database size) and should be very careful …

I didn’t expect it to be this of a big deal to just get password and username lol

Assuming you have a standard Discourse docker installation, you can connect to the postgres database with the postgres user. No password needed: cd /var/discourse ./launcher enter app su postgres psql \c discourse If you want to list all users you can run \du

I wished to access from a desktop app like DBeaver, which is why I was curious. Obviously I don’t want to force change the user password as it would break the community.

Never used DBeaver before but I think it should work with an empty password Connection without password is not supported · Issue #6269 · dbeaver/dbeaver · GitHub

Hmm, that might work but I also received “FATAL: password authentication failed for user “discourse””

Try with postgres as the username.

List of roles Role name | Attributes | Member of -----------+------------------------------------------------------------+----------- discourse | | {} post…

Yeah, the port expose was clear in the first place. Uhm, I have no idea why I didn’t think of the new user lol, that worked. Thx

Consider the data explorer plugin, much less hassle!

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merefield (Robert) May 17, 2022, 8:26pm 2

Take a look at this Topic, it gives you the series of commands you need about half way down:

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