How can I connect my production fly database to GUI e.g. TablePlus

I am trying to connect my production database to GUI so I can have a better idea of my production database.

What are the steps that I can follow?

My production database name: interpreter-booking-app

Thanks

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If you’re using Fly’s managed Postgres: You could connect with the flyctl proxy¹ command forwarding connections to the VM where the database process is up and running. Ref: Public URL / IP for Postgres Cluster - #15 by kurt Though people have run into issues with that setup: Connection timeout when trying to connect to Postgres cluster from outside fly

If you’re coming from the Heroku world, this guide might come in handy: Migrating from Heroku Postgres to Fly Postgres: A Complete Guide

If you are running your own db as a Fly app, you could make your db instance accessible over the public internet: Access fly.io database from Retool - #3 by sheharyar. This setup won’t work if you are using Postgres’ TLS (why), but eitherways, exercise caution.


¹ flyctl proxy basically lets you forward connections from localhost (typically, one’s PC) to within inside your Fly org’s 6pn (private network), from where all your Fly org’s VMs (app instances, db instances, redis instances, builder instances, machine instances) are accessible.