Specifying the DB to connect with gcloud sql

Question

When connecting to a Google Cloud SQL instance, is there a way to specify the database I want to connect to?

This is the command I execute and the error I get:

$ gcloud beta sql connect MY_INSTANCE --user=MY_USER Whitelisting your IP for incoming connection for 5 minutes...done. Connecting to database with SQL user [MY_USER].Password for user MY_USER: psql: FATAL:  database "MY_USER" does not exist 

It seems to try to connect to a database that has the same name than the user, but what when that's not the case? (I don't want to create a dummy DB called MY_USER just to be able to jump to the DB I want).

Here are the docs for the command gcloud beta sql, but I don't see anything useful for this there: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/beta/sql/connect

Answer 1

gcloud sql connect does not currently allow you to specify the database name. There is a open issue to add it: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/69314375

In the meantime, you can work around this by utilizing the PGDATABASE environment variable:

e.g.

PGDATABASE=mydb gcloud sql connect myinstance 

You could create a shell alias to do this for you.