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Postgres error database does not exist

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, docker-compose, postgresql
Domain
databases, devops

Research direction

Start by reviewing the attached _wallabag_logs.txt and comparing the reported Docker environment values with the database connection configuration. Trace why usr_wallabag is used as the database name instead of db_wallabag; done means the existing PostgreSQL database connection uses the configured database name and user.

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Description

I use wallabag in docker.
After an recent update the connection to the existing and before used postgresql database can't be established any more.
The error message is just "database "usr_wallabag" does not exist", but usr_wallabag is the user not the database name.
The relevant environment parameters are configured as followed:
symfony__env__database_name = db_wallabag
symfony__env__database_user = usr_wallabag

The log-file and a screenshot of the environment parameters are attached.

Please let me know if you need any additional information.

_wallabag_logs.txt
wallabag_docker_env_1

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