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# Open Heroku Database In Postico From Terminal
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I recently downloaded [Postico](https://eggerapps.at/postico/) at the
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recommendation of [Dillon Hafer](https://dillonhafer.com/). I tend to use
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`psql` as a PostgreSQL client for all my database querying needs. However,
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Dillon highly recommended Postico for doing system admin querying.
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I needed to connect directly to a production Postgres server on Heroku to
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investigate slow queries. Postico presented me with a form of individual fields
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for host, port, username, password, database, etc.
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This would have been a little annoying to fill in manually. Dillon had a
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shortcut to recommend. From the command line you can open Postico with a
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connection string. It knows how to split that connection string into the
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respective fields.
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```bash
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heroku config:get DATABASE_URL --app APP_NAME | xargs open -a Postico
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```
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This requests the `DATABASE_URL` from Heroku. It is a Postgres connection
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string with all the fields needed to connect to a remove server. This is then
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passed via `xargs` to `Postico` as it is being `open`ed.
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