How to Upgrade or Downgrade Heroku Postgres adon plan
If you are using Heroku and Postgres adon in your project, by the time you may want to upgrade or downgrade Heroku Postgres adon plan based upon your project's database size decrease or increase with time. Although you can follow Heroku documentation for the purpose: Changing the Plan or Infrastructure of a Heroku Postgres Database But I wish to introduce you to another way to upgrade or downgrade the Heroku PostgreSQL Database adon plan. In this process we have 3 steps to follow: 1. Add additional Heroku Postgres adon with the desired plan (you want to switch) using the below command: heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql:adon-plan --app your-appname Where `adon-plan` can be replaced with the desired plan from the plan list and `your-appname` with your application name. 2. Now copy your database from the old Postgres adon to the newly added Postgres adon. heroku pg:copy HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_MAUVE_URL HEROKU_POSTGRESQL_PINK_URL ...