Production Database Not Created After Publishing (Agent Setup Button Issue)

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I’m experiencing an issue where the production database is not being created when I publish my application, despite clicking the “setup database” button when prompted by the agent.

Expected Behavior:

  • When publishing an app with PostgreSQL integration, both development and production databases should be created automatically

  • This used to work correctly in the past - both databases were provisioned without manual intervention

Current Behavior:

  • Development database: Created successfully ✓

  • Production database: Not created ✗

  • No production database tab appears in the Database pane after publishing

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Create a Replit project with PostgreSQL database integration

  2. Work with agent to set up database using Drizzle ORM

  3. Click the agent prompt to “setup database”

  4. Publish the application

  5. Check Database pane for production database

What I’ve Tried:

  • Republishing the application multiple times

  • Asking the agent to create production database (agent reports it doesn’t have permissions)

  • Checking Database pane for manual creation options

Technical Details:

  • Using PostgreSQL (Neon-backed) with Drizzle ORM

  • Development database works correctly

  • App is properly configured to use DATABASE_URL environment variable

  • Agent confirms code is production-ready

Impact:
Cannot use the production database with my published deployment. The app code is ready and will automatically use the production DATABASE_URL when available, but the database itself hasn’t been provisioned.

Question:
Has there been a recent change to how production databases are created? I understand from documentation that production database creation is currently in beta - is manual provisioning now required?

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Yeah, it’s tough, I’ve ran into some issues when initially releasing my app with Agent not being able to touch production (but it’s for good reason).

Could you potentially remix it then try again? Is it throwing an error when you try to publish it?

There have been a few scenarios where I’ve had to do things manually. Would it be possible to do it through Shell? No idea if that would work or not, I just know there have been times where I’ve needed to go into Shell to pull something off.

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go to publish> advanced settings> click on publish

instead of republishing

republishing wont create production db

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Thanks a lot. I had the same problem and I wasn´t being able to create the Production Database.