how to execute a .sql script on heroku?

Question

I have a .sql file with a bunch of insert commands that I want to execute on my postgres database on heroku. But I don\'t know how to do it:-

If I had access to post

Answer 1

Why not just use psql?

If you look at the output of heroku config you will see the database URLs (DATABASE_URL key) your application is using - if you take this and break them apart in to the correct bits for using with the psql all will be good.

eg

DATABASE_URL:  postgres://username:password@host:port/dbname

becomes

psql -h host -p port -d dbname -U username -f datafile.sql