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haroon

supabase – alembic connection string URI error

trying to connect to my supabase database with alembic to run db migrations using Connection String URIs

(1) when using the
Direct Connection
Direct Connection
conn string
  File "/Users/hbak/Desktop/gio/llm-pdf/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/psycopg2/__init__.py", line 122, in connect
    conn = _connect(dsn, connection_factory=connection_factory, **kwasync)
sqlalchemy.exc.OperationalError: (psycopg2.OperationalError) could not translate host name "db.rzjmahpovkyuouybhfhy.supabase.co" to address: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
  File "/Users/hbak/Desktop/gio/llm-pdf/.venv/lib/python3.13/site-packages/psycopg2/__init__.py", line 122, in connect
    conn = _connect(dsn, connection_factory=connection_factory, **kwasync)
sqlalchemy.exc.OperationalError: (psycopg2.OperationalError) could not translate host name "db.rzjmahpovkyuouybhfhy.supabase.co" to address: nodename nor servname provided, or not known


(2) when using the
Transaction Pooler
Transaction Pooler
conn string
works perfectly fine

obviously will use the Transaction Pooler, but considering the application will likely be long running it makes more sense to get the Direct Connection working if possible
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