Unable to add heroku-postgres addon

Question

Attempting to add the heroku-postgres addon with the command heroku addons:create heroku-postgres produces this error:

 !    Could not communicate with vendor, please try again later

Answer 1

It sounds like your network connection is having issues -- that error message you're getting means you were unable to reach the Heroku API servers. Just try it again in a few minutes and you should be good to go.

Answer 2

try this $ heroku addons:add heroku-postgresql:dev