How to change DATABASE_URL for a heroku application

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Ninja Boy picture Ninja Boy · Jan 28, 2016 · Viewed 17.9k times · Source

I wanted to use an external Database with my heroku application. But I'm unable to edit the configuration cariables. I tried using GUI, Which says, Cannot overwrite attachment values DATABASE_URL. While I tried using CLI as well. I used the command: heroku config:addDATABASE_URL="postgresql://username:password@IP:PORT". However, this throws an error ... is not a heroku command.

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0bserver07 picture 0bserver07 · Feb 29, 2016

After trying out most these answers, I came across an update in 2016, here: the database needs to be detached first, then update the variable of the DATABASE_URL.

heroku addons:attach heroku-postgresql -a <app_name> --as HEROKU_DATABASE
heroku addons:detach DATABASE -a <app_name>
heroku config:add DATABASE_URL=

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