Connect to a heroku database with pgadmin

Question

Open the "Properties" of the Heroku server in pgAdminIII and change the "Maintenance DB" value to be the name of the database you want to connect to.

The default setup is suitable for DBAs et al who can connect to any database on the server, but apparently that isn't true in your case.

After you change the Maintenance DB name as suggested by araqnid's answer above, you should also add your database to the DB restrictions field because without this you will see thousands of databases and you may not be able to find yours in the list if the list is too long.

More details here - How to hide databases that I am not allowed to access

This is for pgAdmin 4

In order to connect pgAdmin to your database (postgres instance in Heroku), do the following:

1. Login to Heroku, and select the application in which you have the database

2. Select the Resources tab and then click on "Heroku Postgres Ad-on" (see below). This will open up a new tab.

3. Select the Settings tab and then click on "View Credentials..." (see below)

   You will get the following information that you will use in pgAdmin:

   

4. Go to pgAdmin, and create a new server

5. In the General tab, give a useful name

6. In the Connection tab, fill the info you got at Heroku

7. In order to avoid seeing thousands of databases, you need to add your database name to DB restriction in the Advanced tab (see below)

We require SSL for connections outside Heroku. Please verify whether you're forcing SSL in your client.

Answered more thoroughly here: Connecting pgAdmin3 to Postgres on Heroku

We don't allow connections to the postgres database, so be sure to set Maintenance DB to your database name, and be sure to use SSL.

Change the Maintenance Database to the name of your Database, e.g. dva70000p0090. This should work.