I'm having trouble with password field while using pg:pull with my Heroku postgres database

Question

I am using the Cloud9 IDE which has an ubuntu operating system. I recently uninstalled my local SQLlite3 database from my Rails app and successfully installed a local postgres database. I am now trying to pull the postgres production database from Heroku.

If I run ActiveRecord::Base.connection.instance_variable_get(:@config) in Rails Console:

{:adapter=>"postgresql", :encoding=>"unicode", :pool=>5, :template=>"template0", :username=>"ubuntu", :password=>"password", :database=>"learning_app_development"}

From the command line perthese instructions:

$ heroku pg:pull DATABASE_URL mylocaldb --app my-app-6503

heroku-cli: Pulling postgresql-meadows-7463 ---> mylocaldb
Password:

After I enter password in this field, it fails:

createdb: could not connect to database template1: FATAL: password authentication failed for user "ubuntu"

This answer by Elliot is the instructions I followed to setup postgres locally.

Answer 1

I solved this with this answer:

heroku pg:pull password authentication failed

from Joel.

It does not make any sense to me all besides that maybe Heroku will not accept password as the password?