Laravel: Connect to Neon serveless postgresql database
Carlos Costa
A serverless database is a cloud-based system that dynamically manages the allocation of machine resources.
The connection to a serverless database is the same as a regular database, but the connection string is different.
DB_CONNECTION=pgsql
DB_HOST=(database-host)
DB_PORT=5432
DB_DATABASE=(database-name)
DB_USERNAME=(database-user)
DB_PASSWORD=endpoint=(database-id);(database-password)
DB_SSLMODE=require
The database host looks like: ep-foo-bar-00000.us-east-2.aws.neon.tech
and the id is the first item of the host name, in this case ep-foo-bar-00000
.
In the config/database.php
file, we need add sslmode
to psql connection and expose to env config.
'pgsql' => [
'driver' => 'pgsql',
'url' => env('DATABASE_URL'),
'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
'port' => env('DB_PORT', '5432'),
'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
'charset' => 'utf8',
'prefix' => '',
'prefix_indexes' => true,
'search_path' => 'public',
'sslmode' => env('DB_SSLMODE', 'prefer'),
],