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Intellij postgres can't see tables even though connected


I'm trying to use the database tool in intellij (pycharm) instead of the usual postgres cli psql. However although the IDE can connect to postgres and see the different databases I can't seem to see any tables within in for some reason. There doesn't seem to be a helpful guide to set this up unfortunately.
Intellij: db config

psql: db tables


Solution

  • The connection to the database needs to be specific to that database not just the general postgres database.

    eg in View-> Tool windows-> Database

    Then click on database setting icon and for the url have (on osx at least):

    jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/yourdatabase