Hi Richard,

That worked like a charm. Thanks!

> On Dec 1, 2020, at 6:45 PM, Richard Brockie <richard.broc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jack,
> 
> I've got 2 heroku databases up and running, one free "Hobby Dev", and one 
> production "Standard 0". 
> 
> To only address the "Hobby Dev" rather than pick from the long list, I've 
> added the database name to the "DB restriction" field on the Advanced tab of 
> the connection menu. I didn't have to do this for the "Standard 0" database 
> for some reason.
> 
> R.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 6:03 PM Jack Royal-Gordon <jac...@pobox.com 
> <mailto:jac...@pobox.com>> wrote:
> I am using Heroku to host a number of apps. Some of them have PG databases 
> that are on shared servers. When that happens, there could be hundreds of 
> databases on a single server (each with a randomly-generated name), but only 
> one of them is the one I’m interested in (and that’s the only one that I have 
> access to).
> 
> When I add the database to pgAdmin4, I provide the host address, username, 
> password, and database name. But there seems to be no way to directly open a 
> connection to that database. I must first open the server, then click on 
> “Databases”, then find my database from among the hundreds listed, and only 
> then can I establish a connection to the database.
> 
> Is there a shortcut to just use the connection info that I have provided to 
> go straight to the database? If not, then I would suggest that such a feature 
> ought to be fast-tracked. For example, you might add a “Open database xxx” 
> command to the context menu on the server, where the “xxx” is the database 
> name.
> 
> Another option would be to use the server credentials to determine which 
> databases I have access to, and only list the ones that are available to me. 
> If you don’t want this behavior to apply to all databases, then add a flag on 
> the “Advanced” tab of the server properties that would toggle between this 
> behavior and the current behavior.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jack
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
>     R.
> 
> Richard Brockie
> 
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